Pathetic way to assert a country’s sovereign right
Pathetic way to assert a country’s sovereign right
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat.com
Pity the Philippines. When China issued a not-so-veiled warning that it would use force against any “incursions” in the part fo the Spratly Islands that it is claiming, Vietnam reacted by protesting strongly. The Aquino government first made known its wish that the US would supply more arms to it through the Excess Defense Articles program and practically begged the US to back it up militarily in the event that the conflict in the Spratly Islands escalates into a shooting war. The Philippines justified this by invoking the US-RP Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) of 1951.
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