192. For someone who threatened all kinds of sanctions against Canada for shipping garbage to the Philippines, Duterte has been unusually tongue-tied in the case of the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat. The situation could become more and more incendiary.
Lacking air cover, the American Asiatic … According to him, he does not want to go after the illegal Chinese workers because the Chinese government might retaliate by going after illegal Filipino workers in China.To rub salt on the sore, Chinese construction workers assigned to the “Build, Build, Build” program of the Duterte government are reportedly paid much, much more than Filipinos. For one thing, the Philippine economy is dominated by the Chinese.Of course, the taipans are Filipinos of Chinese ethnicity.
Chinese Investment and Influence in the Philippine Power Sector. By Editorial Staff - February 7, 2019. And the Chinese workers are also provided housing.With no attempt to hide its sarcasm, Forbes ran an article by Panos Mourdoukoutas with the headline “Duterte opens up the Philippines to Chinese workers, as Filipino seek jobs overseas.” As at Pearl Harbor, American aircraft were severely damaged in the initial Japanese attack. The largest businesses in the country were taken over by the Chinese. But what completed the control of the country was the takeover of Malacañang by a new president named Co Hwang Coh.”I wrote that piece over seven years ago. All were defeated by the Spanish and their Filipino allies by 1597. What China is doing is almost an invasion," marcher Alex Legaspi, a 53-year-old teacher, told AFP.While Duterte has largely set aside the once-heated territorial standoff over the sea, tensions have flared since hundreds of Chinese vessels appeared recently near the Manila-held Pag-asa (Thitu) island.The Philippines called the boats' presence "illegal" and Duterte threatened China with possible military action if it touches the island.However, the president has repeatedly said war with China would be futile and he has no intention of getting into a conflict with the rising power he has courted for trade and investment.Duterte has been criticised at home as being too eager to grow ties with Beijing, and giving up too much leverage on the South China Sea issue.Meanwhile, the United States has moved to boost its relationship with long-time ally and former colony the Philippines.A small group of policemen monitored the protesters, who numbered around 1,000 according to journalists on the scene. “I dreamed that the Chinese invaded the Philippines after the confrontation at the West Philippine Sea finally exploded into an all-out war… The AFP was no match to the vastly superior Chinese forces. All the contracts that the Philippines had agreed to undertake with Chinese bank loan financing, the following conditions are included: No bidding process, project to be done by one of China’s state-owned companies, the workers to be Chinese nationals, cost overruns to be renegotiated (that usually ends in higher interest rates), and others including asset-based lending practices. The Philippines should prepare to be invaded by China, warns a former top Philippines defense official. And when the Chinese tried passing the blame on to “seven or eight Filipino fishing boats” that ostensibly “besieged” the Chinese boat, causing it to hit the Filipino boat, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. engaged in clumsy diplomatese.Said Locsin: “Interesting.
Protesters also voiced simmering unease over the terms Chinese loans for infrastructure in the Philippines, including a massive dam-building project. "We cannot allow... China to control Filipinos and the Philippines' sovereignty," Wilma Quierrez, 53, member of indigenous rights group told AFP. It is said that the DDS (die-hard Duterte supporters) are purposely raising the “war” scare to silence those who are legitimately and logically demanding an explanation of the incident from China.In fact, Duterte spokesman Salvador Panelo has demanded such an explanation from the Chinese and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has sharply criticized the fact that the crew of the Chinese boat did not assist the Filipino fishermen in the sinking vessel (Lorenzana has since softened his stance). Share on Facebook. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The entire country found itself completely under Chinese control… In fact, I wrote one column entitled “Learning from the Chinese,” which suggested that Pinoys should shed the “employee mentality” and strive to be employers.But our relations with China appears to be deteriorating, with the Philippines getting the short end of the situation. He has left it to Panelo and Lorenzana to protest the incident. Duterte’s logic defies, well, logic. "The loan agreement signed by (Chinese President) Xi Jinping and President Duterte will send us into debt trap," she added. We say what we want because it is a free world for us too; but in our case we speak from the law of the sea. 0. Tweet on Twitter. Advertisement They are entrepreneurs and they have the work ethic, the vision, and the daring to match their entrepreneurship. It has also been said that while Filipino parents send their children to the best schools so that they can land good jobs, Chinese parents do the same so that their children can set up their own businesses. Advertisement Although our soldiers fought gallantly, the war was over in a few days. We can only pray that it doesn’t explode and get out of control.The situation prompted me to dig up my old files for reference.
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