By DEE AYROSO
Loanshark
Tags: China
Bark and wag
By DEE AYROSO
Racist — and colonial
TO BELIEVE and argue that black people are inherently violent or that all Jews are money-grubbing scoundrels is to presume that race is the determinant of certain vices and virtues. It is nothing but racism, and those who harbor that presumption qualify as racists. Themselves the subjects and targets of racism, Filipinos can be racist…
Groups hit ‘treacherous’ Duterte-Xi Jinping meet
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – Progressive groups here have assailed the meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese president Xi Jinping as a treachery as the agreements signed between the two leaders will not benefit the Filipino people. On Nov. 20, Duterte welcomed the Chinese leader in Manila for a two-day state…
China-US military, trade rivalries heat up
“China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States… There is no guarantee that the United States would win a future conflict with China.” The stunning twin statements are from Admiral Philip S. Davidson, highlighting his written remarks submitted to the United States Senate…
Fishers to file complaint before UN on West PH dispute
The Chinese embassy issued a statement saying that it has allowed Filipino fishermen to fish in the West Philippine Sea “out of goodwill.”
#HINDIpendenceDay | Groups slam Duterte’s ‘subservience to foreign powers, tyrannical rule’
“The Filipino people’s dignity and sovereignty could not be bought with cigarettes and noodles.”
‘Protection’s’ price
President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that China has promised to protect the Philippines from external threats immediately raises two questions. Who or what these external threats could be is the first. But the second is, Who will protect the Philippines from China? Mr. Duterte could be thinking of the United States as one of those “external…
On Duterte’s visit to PH Rise| ‘All but a PR stunt’ – fisherfolk group
“It would only be convincing if Duterte himself would sail to the disputed waters and pressure China to surrender their irrational claim over almost the entire South China Sea.”
No China ‘co-ownership’ of Philippines marine resources
Last week President Duterte announced that his administration was considering China’s offer to jointly explore an undisputed Philippine territory for potential energy deposits. He was referring to an area off Busuanga, Palawan and the Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), within the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone (EEZ) over which we have sovereign…
A league of his own
Even if he’s serious about it, President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer for the Philippines to host a high-level meeting, or summit, on human rights is unlikely to materialize. The leaders of those countries accused of human rights violations would hardly welcome an assembly in which the details of their crimes against humanity and other transgressions will…