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Published July 12, 2021, 1:56 PM
When President Duterte himself admitted in his 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA) that he is “inutil” (useless) regarding China’s continued presence in the West Philippine Sea, and his professed “love” for Chinese President Xi Jinping, is it not about time to reject him?
The was the question posed by former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario to the Filipino people on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Arbitral Tribunal decision that rejected China’s excessive claim over the vast resources of the South China Sea.
Speaking at the virtual forum entitled Reinforcing the 2016 Arbitral Victory: The West Philippine Sea in the Convergence of Strategies, Del Rosario narrated Duterte’s series of pronouncements in the past five years that undermined the Arbitral Award, specifically by setting it aside in favor of economic benefits from China.
Duterte rehashes campaign joke : Jet ski part never arrived, so no Spratlys trip
May 10, 2021 11:01 PM PHT
Nagplano ako niyan. Bumili ako ng jet ski. Ang kaya ko, second-hand lang. So nag order ako ng piyesa, hanggang ngayon, hindi pa dumating since then. Eh walang dumating, wala akong magawa, said Duterte on Monday, May 10, during a televised address.
(I planned it. I bought a jet ski. I could only afford a second-hand one. So I ordered parts, until now, it hasn t arrived. So nothing arrived, there was nothing I could do.)
He said he even plotted his route to the Kalayaan Group of Islands (a part of Spratlys) but gave up on the trip when he saw there were no gas stations in the middle of the West Philippine Sea.