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IN the span of 38 years, counting from the EDSA revolt in 1986 and the overthrow of the senior President Ferdinand E. Marcos, the republic has been led and served by seven presidents.Each president, in their respective ways, maintained relations with China. And each got different degrees of deference and support from Beijing, as China's paramount leader at the time would allow.
It did not occur to our policymakers and leaders then that China would fill the vacuum left after the American bases were closed down.I cannot blame our senators for not ratifying the proposed renewal of the military bases agreement with the US, but our senators ought to have foreseen that once the US left Subic and Clark, there would be a vacuum in the South China Sea. We should have prepared for that before we kicked out our allies from the air bases and naval bases in the Philippines.
PH Presidents Defended Or Sold The Nation's Rights In West Philippine Sea
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