' No room for jokes' EDITORIAL: Remember the promise of then-candidate Rodrigo Duterte that he would hop on a jet ski to assert the Philippines’ claim on the West Philippine Sea? Read it here👇
In the same year that Mr. Duterte clinched the presidency, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, where the Philippines logged a formal complaint against China three years before, ruled in our favor, discrediting China’s claims of a so-called nine-dash line.
And even as he acknowledged China’s frequent incursions on our territory, and even as diplomatic protests were sporadically filed over this or that incident, the President always said that going to war with our giant neighbor would be futile and disastrous, given our disparity in military might. A leader should inspire confidence among the people, and assure them that they will not be left to their own faculties in securing what is rightfully theirs. A good and sincere person, after all, will not try to take advantage of a friend’s trust and good faith, especially if that friend is somehow more vulnerable or less equipped to protect himself.
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