BEIJING Most Filipinos probably have no idea about the ancient city of Xi’an unless they have read about or watched documentaries on the Terracotta Warriors, the renowned underground sculptures of soldiers of a Chinese emperor. Xi’an used to be the seat of power of China, from its first unified Chinese empire the…
PROF. MERLIN MAGALLONA, one of the Philippines’s leading experts in international law who led numerous studies on maritime issues pre-Unclos and later became a UP Law dean and Foreign Affairs undersecretary, has died. The highly respected intellectual died peacefully in his sleep on New Year’s Day at the age of…
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By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published December 20, 2020 10:37am Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has slammed critics questioning the efficacy of available COVID-19 vaccines, saying no government will allow a defective dose developed in their own country to be injected on its people. In a virtual interview with former diplomatic reporter Malou Talosig-Bartolome on Saturday, Locsin argued that countries thrive not solely on military power but, more importantly on credibility, and distributing a faulty vaccine will make them lose their people s trust for centuries. No aspiring great power will ever, ever distribute a vaccine that they do not believe sincerely is the best. Because if they did that and it failed out there, the reputation will be destroyed for the next two, three centuries, he said.