him to rate the Duterte administration’s foreign policy on a scale of 1 to 10 . Roque gave President Duterte a grade of 8.5, explaining why it wasn’t higher.
But to me, the slides represent what the IDSI is advocating about Philippine-Chinese relationships. I googled the group’s website and clicked on “Contributors,” and I saw only one listed. She had written an article titled “A Plea Against the National Egoism of Filipinos,” and those arguments mirrored Mr. Duterte’s own: that we Filipinos had to choose between appeasement of China or war with her. Which leads me to believe that the IDSI is actually a pro-China advocacy vehicle.
Fish poaching. China has also been poaching in our exclusive economic zone. The reported 270 Chinese fishing boats present at Subi and Mischief Reefs would have a cumulative catch of 3,240 MT per day or 1.2 MT per year. Then there is Scarborough Shoal where our catch has declined 40 percent year-on-year because the Chinese boats prevent Filipino fishermen from fishing in the lagoon.
And by the way, an Inquirer article quoting the PSA shows that our imports from China, what we buy from them, are far greater than our exports to China, what we sell to them. Using IDSI’s logic, China benefits more than we do from our trade. Also, it shows that for every test kit, or PPE, or vaccine donated by China to us, we have bought much more from China—at greatly inflated prices—suggesting that China’s donations were loss leaders to get us to buy from them.
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