Category: Opinion
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Conspiracies Bred by Anti-China Half-Billion Dollar US Budget for Disinformation
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part Three: Unholy Anti-China Soft Alliance on the rocks? A Voice of America report on April, 2019 said that Vietnam has slowly added buildings on some of its 10 major islets since 2017. Development of military-controlled islands that Vietnam has occupied for decades in the South China Sea’s Spratly Island chain involves…
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RP-Vietnam Flirtation Serves G7 Lies, Shortchanges Our National Interest
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part Two: Unholy Anti-China Soft Alliance on the rocks? Now that the Philippine Coast Guard has caught the ire of the Vietnamese, over its meaningless placement of buoys, will the American investments in information war introducing dissonance between China and the Philippines go up in smoke? Maybe, but Albert del Rosario must…
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PCG Buoys @Spratlys Earn Vietnam Rebuke, Expose Tarriela’s Ignorance of SCS Issues
By Adolfo Quizon Part One: Unholy Anti-China Soft Alliance on the Rocks? A lot better-looking than Jay Tarriela, Philippine Coast Guard self-proclaimed spox for West Philippine Seas, Pham Thu Hang, deputy spokeswoman of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, protested the Philippines’ placement of buoys at Whitsun Reef, among others. While Ms. Pham said the action…
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Why the Americans need the EDCA bases and Why We cannot allow them to stay
Revised Statement to the Forum on “Bases of Insecurity and the Taiwan Question” By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan | 09173364366 | adolfopaglinawan@yahoo.com Part Three : Towards Our National Insecurity After many could not believe that the purpose of EDCA Bases was for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), geopolitical karaokists are now belting the lyrics of…
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How Bongbong’s American Bases Put Our Country in Severe Harm’s Way
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part Two: Towards Our National Insecurity The moment of truth involving war where China and the United States, the Philippines and Taiwan are the actors, does not depend merely on the strategic location of the Bashi Channel, as we have discussed in the first part of this series. The Bashi scenario is…
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Desperate Need of Bongbong’s American Friends for The Bashi Channel
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part One: Towards Our National Insecurity The Bashi Channel is one of the most strategic yet lesser-known choke points in the Indo-Pacific region, rivaling the Malacca and Taiwan Straits for the title, said an incisive YouTube@Kamome gathering 2.2 million hits in just two weeks. I will quote the video, freely. Please find…
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BBM’s betrayal of ASEAN, and New Macabebes of the U.S. Deep State
By Herman Tiu Laurel This morning I was glad to read Bobi Tiglao’s “Marcos’ embrace of US worries Asean” article in the Manila Times as I have been reporting this fact over my YouTube, FB and GNN (Golden Nation Network) satellite/cabe TV show that’s also shown on SkyCable TV. BBM, which I translate to BabawMarcos…
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Historiography debunks fake arbitration: China Is Nine-Dash Line Successor-in-Interest
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Part Two: Stoking the Mythical West Philippine Seas Isn’t it glaring that the only reference central to the lawfare and information war of the United States against China “not having” any legal basis for its nine-dash line is the 2016 ruling of the arbitral proceedings that the Philippines registered with the Permanent…
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Contreras’ lies a broken record
By Herman Tiu Laurel This is the third and last part of my response to the column of Prof. Antonio Contreras “War and Fearmongering.” His column accused Philippine diplomacy of bowing to Chinese threats in crafting it foreign policy, a direct contradiction of the reality that the Philippines under BBM is actually shaping Philippines foreign…
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Should Filipinos feel more secure now?
By Francisco S. Tatad First of 2 parts AS I was saying on this page, US President Joe Biden would assure Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM) of “ironclad” protection against Chinese “aggression” during their talks at the White House. And so he did. The joint statement released by the White House on May…
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Bongbong May Be Sleepwalking Over Contentious Waters To Spark War
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan, Solidarity for Sovereignty Part One: Stoking the Mythical West Philippine Seas The myth that Presidents Joe Biden and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. are trying to make the world accept is summarized in this portion of a recent Nikkei Asia report covering his recent working visit to Washington DC. “In 2016, an international tribunal…
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Pokemon Meets Hegemon, After China Tests Nextgen Hypersonics
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan For one who does not believe China will invade Taiwan, and the United States cannot engage China in a war in the Asia Pacific, I consider the recent working visit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Washington DC, as the only remaining stage where hegemon might be leading. But only because…