(09-02-2023, 12:17 PM)Manthink Wrote:  8 Feb 2023

For Filipinos like me who grew up under the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the news that the U.S. military would expand its presence in the Philippines has been dizzying and wounding. The image of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin shaking hands in Manila last week with the country’s fatuously smiling president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the former despot, was like some tragic Groundhog Day.



https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/dancing-with-america-has-been-a-curse-for-the-philippines/

(14-02-2023, 11:12 AM)teaserteam Wrote:  强辞夺理。

看中国历史，得看中国人写的！

(14-02-2023, 11:24 AM)cityhantam Wrote:  看中国历史，得看中国人写的！


https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=d986c0a0ea925f765c687870&fromModule=usercenter-userpage_tab-list&fromModule=lemma_middle-info

(14-02-2023, 11:16 AM)teaserteam Wrote:  There is an International Law called Laws of the Seas or UNCLOS. 

(14-02-2023, 11:26 AM)cheekopekman Wrote:  中国人写的一定对咩？

(14-02-2023, 11:27 AM)cityhantam Wrote:  Now trying to divert liao! 

BTW, do you know that Assmerica is not a signatory of UNCLOS? 

(14-02-2023, 11:38 AM)teaserteam Wrote:  Let forumers judge.  U r diverting or I am..quickly get CCP to claim and dispute Hawaii and Guam,  the US sure lose.

(14-02-2023, 11:42 AM)revealer Wrote:  He is the king of diversion and he will divert the topics and talk about other things else and accuse you of diverting.

(14-02-2023, 11:38 AM)teaserteam Wrote:  Let forumers judge.  U r diverting or I am..quickly get CCP to claim and dispute Hawaii and Guam,  the US sure lose.

(14-02-2023, 11:29 AM)cityhantam Wrote:  英国人教香港学生说鸦片战争是为了中国好！

你说呢？

(14-02-2023, 11:16 AM)teaserteam Wrote:  There is an International Law called Laws of the Seas or UNCLOS.  If there is a dispute over the ocean territory,  the laws stipulate a limit of 200 nautical miles as EEZ.  How far is this island from China?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#:~:text=An%20exclusive%20economic%20zone%20extends,any%20pollution%20of%20those%20resources.

(14-02-2023, 11:27 AM)cityhantam Wrote:  Now trying to divert liao!  

BTW, do you know that Assmerica is not a signatory of UNCLOS? 

(13-02-2023, 09:47 PM)maxsanic Wrote:  Opinion pieces written by arty farty people like this novelist Gina Apostol are usually very emotionally immersive as such folks are very apt at framing their analysis and findings in a heart bleeding and emotional manner. This is a good thing as far as communication goes.

However the fatal shortfall of such people is usually the inability to formulate a practical and feasible solution to the problem. Gina says ordinary Pinoys are being predated by vultures like US and China which I suppose is somewhat true from a Philippines point of view. So what exactly is she suggesting President Marcos do?

Broadly speaking the options can be #1 side with US, #2 side with China, #3 play both sides but also run the risk of offending both parties. Naturally each option comes with its own trade offs and it is up to her to argue why her particular solution provides the best benefit for cost. 

Instead of doing that, she ends her piece with a totally childish beyond measure proposal - the solution, according to her, is for Biden to sign some "Philippine Human Rights Act". Is this some sort of a joke? How will Biden signing some stupid US domestic bill help solve the major geopolitical and historical / colonial problems she laboriously elaborated to us earlier above?

(14-02-2023, 11:52 AM)alanis Wrote:  https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E6%AE%B5%E7%BA%BF/19360494
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(14-02-2023, 01:41 PM)Manthink Wrote:  I doubt the Author's "arty farty" profession has anything to do w her writing like soft-soft wishy-washy type.
Rather major contributing factor is the nature of Pinoy - which sadly lead them them to be more easily "domesticated" by their ex colonial master from Spanish to the Americans. 

The created a nation and population which are generally easily mesmerised by the West... Hence adopting to many of the values and systems from Catholicism coversions to dressing etc.

So it is no accident unlike most of the Asian countries today, aside from Japan & S Korea, has large US military present within its territory...

(14-02-2023, 10:42 AM)teaserteam Wrote:  This island 仁愛礁 is so far away from China,  CCP also wanted to claim.. CCP really jialat.  霸道