[Manthink]

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?

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...