Diffusing tension

He said the United States is standing up against China’s economic practices while standing up for peace across the Taiwan Strait.

I have observed PBBM’s over-reliance on the foreign policy advice of his close relatives, House Speaker Martin Romualdez and Ambassador Babe Romualdez. Alarmingly, the Romualdez cousins seem to be taking a page out of the discredited playbook employed by the late President Aquino in the infamous Panatag Shoal stand-off in 2012. The Aquino government thought that the Americans, through the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951, would help us expel the Chinese Navy.

My Chinese colleagues and audience admitted that our diplomatic ties have reached a low point because America has openly taken the Philippine side. Two recent collision incidents involving Filipino and Chinese vessels have heightened bilateral tension. In one case, four Filipino crewmen suffered injuries. When I saw the photos and videos of both collisions, the Philippine vessels appeared to be at fault. The Filipino-manned ships collided with the left side of the Chinese boats.

Only two Metro Manila bridges under the BRI were implemented. In comparison, China has funded several Southeast Asian megaprojects such as Lao PDR’s China-Laos Railway, Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung Highspeed and Vietnam’s Cat Linh-Dong Ha Metro . The US House of Reps has passed a bill to ban TikTok unless it cuts ties to Communist China. Chinese parent ByteDance must sell TikTok to another nationality in six months or be shut down.

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