The background of the “sum total” approach can perhaps best be understood in terms Communications Secretary Martin Andanar used in his column the other day: “Manila, during the previous administration, pursued a policy that reduced a flourishing and multifaceted relationship into a mere squabble over which entity owned this reef or that. Issues of trade and commerce were thrown into the dustbin, and everything was reduced into a game of asserting ownership.”
This is, at best, a hypothesis that needs testing; at worst, a flat-out misreading of both the bilateral relations (which continued, despite obvious strain) and of the territorial and maritime claims of the Philippines. Whether hypothesis or misreading, it seeks, rather remarkably, to place the blame for the bullying that took place in the last few years on the bullied rather than the bully.
Yasay, in Brunei, also blamed the Aquino administration: “Right now is not the time to discuss substantively resolving this issue. We still have to build on the lost trust and confidence eroded during the past administration. We should not miss out on opportunities for assistance and loans and pursue these things to the mutual benefit of both countries without eroding our respective claims over the South China Sea.”
Why assistance and loans from China are to be welcomed, but those from the United States should be scorned, the foreign secretary did not say. Why assistance and loans from China form part of an independent foreign policy, but not those from the United States, he also did not explain.
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October 19th, 2016 11:01 AM #7302UN rapporteur: No invite yet to probe PH killings
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October 19th, 2016 12:41 PM #7303Here's hoping we know what we're doing. I how that our policy makers have done their homework.
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October 19th, 2016 01:46 PM #7304What an idiot. 100 days into the presidency and already thinking about 2022?
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October 19th, 2016 05:02 PM #7305Joke ba to or misquoted lang?
Lorenzana then replied: "Mr. Chair, I really don't know because the President has been issuing statements without consulting the Cabinet."*
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October 19th, 2016 05:22 PM #7306Possible. I mean he keeps promising soldiers and cops salary increases and new pistols only for his DBM secretary to tell the press there is no money for those. There are rumors also that there is cabinet infighting between the left and right members, with both groups clamoring for the opposite side to be ousted. This sounds even worse than the rivalry between the Roxas and Ochoa factions in PNoy's term.
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October 19th, 2016 05:57 PM #7307Russia will donate migs fighter jets to PH.
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October 19th, 2016 06:06 PM #7308Hahaha! Maybe we should ask for flat-tops. That would be awesome! Originally Posted by dreamur
Russia will donate migs fighter jets to PH.
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October 19th, 2016 07:23 PM #7309 Originally Posted by rambo149
Yup, it was all in aid of persecution (of delima). In the end, the committee on justice chairman Umali said that all these "evidences" presented by peluka were second hand (hearsay), that is why the committee cannot recommend filing of charges against delima in their final report. Gusto lang talaga nila maiskandalo yung senadora. Revenge for her EJK advocacy. What a bunch of....He said the pardon requests could be treated as another proof that the House probe was intended as a smear campaign against De Lima, the fiercest critic of Duterte.
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October 19th, 2016 08:59 PM #7311^ amerika daw ang may kasalanan ng pagsagasa kanina ayon sa mga leftists 👊
to be or not to be, that always confuses me!
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October 19th, 2016 09:11 PM #7312up up, down down, left right, left right, B A start select....extra life.. Originally Posted by Monseratto
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October 19th, 2016 11:24 PM #7313Ankukulit kasi ng mga raliyista
Lahat ng makitang pulis inuupakan
Mga O.A., ano ba pinaglalaban nila, pagkain ba, bahay? Wew!
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October 19th, 2016 11:55 PM #7314Can't help but think that it was meant to fit the president's anti-US rhetoric. Whether that's reality or not...
Tail wagging the dog imho
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October 20th, 2016 08:20 AM #7315To continue the pun, they are barking at the wrong tree. #chinaistheenemy Originally Posted by badkuk
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October 20th, 2016 08:36 AM #7316i wonder what brought this on. Originally Posted by Monseratto
what was the driver thinking?
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October 20th, 2016 08:45 AM #7317^ Best case, the driver panicked...worst case, napikon sa rallyista kaya nag ala bumper car siya. He saw the lady in green get run over but he still plowed through...there were a group of riot police just a few meters from the van, nganga lang sila when the rallyists were trashing the van.
Sorry for being hard on the police, but imho the driver messed up big time.
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October 20th, 2016 08:53 AM #7318They should conduct a drug test on the driver...
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October 20th, 2016 09:01 AM #7319^ Actually. Tutal, if the driver's clean, e di walang problema. Pati psychological test na rin. What with the impending salary increases of the soldiers and policemen, i think we can be a little bit more strict with their performance/qualifications.
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October 20th, 2016 09:15 AM #7320 Originally Posted by dr. d
self defense doc....you should see the whole video on the news
forward to 17:00, ill do the same pag kinuyog ako
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