Category: Solidarity for Sovereignty
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Deadline to Abrogate EDCA Is April 27, 2023!
by Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan On November 1992, when the last US ship and helicopter carrier, the USS Bealleau Wood, sailed away from Subic Bay after the Philippine Senate voted 12-11 to reject the extension of the US-Philippines Military Bases Agreement, I said to myself, for richer or poorer, at least the Philippines is on…
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Loren Legarda proves Victor Corpus, Right After All!
by Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan I recall that in February 2004, opposition vice-presidential candidate Sen. Loren Legarda’s allies in the Senate ganged up on Armed Forces civil relations chief Brig. Gen. Victor Corpus for calling her a “political prostitute.” Senate President Pro Tempore Juan Flavier led the barrage by calling on Corpus’ attack on Legarda…
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Creation of a Dept of Fisheries Unshackles Two Million Coastal Families from Poverty
by Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan, Part II So let us cut to the chase and deliberately free 10 million of our people from the poverty line. What are a few of the broad strokes that I would like to offer as solutions to a decrepit fishing and marine industry that has been neglected by 16…
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Urgent Prospects of Building a Real Fishing Industry with China as Partner
by Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan, Part I The fulfillment of vibrant and fruitful cooperation between the Philippines and China on fisheries management, protection of marine environment and law enforcement is so close, our President should not wait any longer to shoot an arrow of esteemed friendship across the South China Seas to the people of…
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Updating Our Baselines Is Priority Not Senate Empty WPS Legislation
By Ado Paglinawan The public relations machine is on the roadshow again, this time with Senator Francis Tolentino formalizing the nomenclature “West Philippine Sea” (WPS) into a law through Senate Bill 405. The WPS is a feeble creation of the village idiot BS Aquino III as his Administrative Order No. 29 in 2012, providing…
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EDCA Not a Deterrent, but a Magnet to China’s Dong Feng Missiles
By Ado Paglinawan Responding to the question of then Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin asserted that the Enhance Defense Cooperation Agreement between the Philippines and the United States was a deterrent because China didn’t attack the resupply mission to our few soldiers stationed inside the BRP Sierra Madre that our navy…
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Will Marcos Jr. replace Taiwan’s president as the American Poster Boy in East Asia?
By Ado Paglinawan The close shave we have just experienced in Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan should make the Filipino wonder where is the United States is getting all the umpah that inspite of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, two recessions spelling a depression, and an impending defeat in its proxy war in Ukraine, it…
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Bangsa Suluk Rising: French Arbitration Award Opens a Can of Worms
Part 2 By Ado Paglinawan To fast-forward the case, Malaysia attempted to stop the Madrid proceedings. But while Malaysia’s Spain-based lawyers asked Stampa to end the arbitration due to a High Court’s decision In Madrid, the Sulu claimants challenged this and Stampa decided on July 20, 2021 to remain as the arbitrator…
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Pelosi’s Reckless Roadshow Destroys American Credibility and Goodwill in East Asia
Solidarity for Sovereignty By Ado Paglinawan China’s response to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, is sensitively measured, appropriate and no other country can react adversely without acting as provocateur. It is a grim signal to all trespassers against the One-China doctrine supported by 178 out of 193 members of the United Nations,…
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Bangsa Suluk Rising: Colonials Deflecting Us from Issues of National Urgency
Part 1 By Ado Paglinawan The Americans got us so busy with their wars and the West Philippine Seas, we forgot about our territory south of the Sulu Archipelago. On January 2, 1930 the United States made sure North Borneo will not be in our consciousness when they signed with their cousins…
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Toying with DDR: Bong Go’s Bridge to Nowhere
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has joined Senate President Jose Miguel Zubiri in the latter’s soapbox for a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) by filing Senate Bill 188 in the 19th Congress which is just a renumbering of Senate Bill 205 that did not pass the last Congress. Their only rationale – the…
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Toying with DDR: Zubiri must not fix what ain’t broke
Solidarity for Sovereignty By Ado Paglinawan Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri’s insistence on an “office with cabinet rank” to take over the idea of a Department of Disaster Resilience is proof positive that the upper house of the Philippine legislature has already outlived its usefulness. The Senate must be abolished. If…