PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has sent an unequivocal message to the country’s giant northern neighbor China when the 66-year-old leader said the Philippines will not be bullied into silence.
We understand from the President the government will implement a “response and counter-measure package that is proportionate, deliberate, and reasonable in the face of the open, unabating, and illegal, coercive, aggressive, and dangerous attacks by agents of the China Coast Guard and the Chinese maritime militia.”
It is incredulous that China has the undisguised conceit when it blamed the Philippines for “provocations” as the cause of rising tensions in the West Philippine Sea, which is within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone. It is true that such statement demonstrated China’s inability, in the words of the DND, “to conduct open, transparent and legal negotiations their repertoire consists only of patronizing and, failing that, intimidating smaller countries.”The National Defense College Alumni Association also denounced the China Coast Guard’s use of water cannons against Philippine vessels.
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