What explains Duterte’s behavior toward China?

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It’s hard to imagine how any Filipino can be supportive of President Duterte’s submissive, fawning behavior toward China notwithstanding the latter’s belligerent claim over a huge area of our

No matter how disillusioned we may have grown with our country, when our poor fishermen are shooed away from earning their living in our very own seas, it’s natural that our sense of nationalism will impel us to be outraged at the bully of Asia.

A total of 12 senators have condemned China for its illegal activities inside our EEZ. Eleven senators signed a resolution condemning in the “strongest possible terms” China’s illegal activities in our EEZ. Sen. Manny Pacquiao made it 12 when he wrote a separate letter demanding that China “withdraw vessels from our territory,” and that it “respect our sovereignty.”

The behavior of the President on the West Philippine Sea controversy is unnerving. He downplays any belligerent move by China against our country’s interest, and he castigates his own people when they express anger against China. It’s true that there were other presidents in our country’s history who similarly kowtowed to an enemy country.

If the President considers our victory as mere worthless trash in the eyes of “hoodlum” China, where then does he anchor his own action or inaction which he calculates will work to advance his country’s interest?

 

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