Does the Philippines deserve to exist as an independent country? The question might sound absurd if not also insulting, yet the determination of the Duterte government to do nothing to counter the occupation of its maritime space by China raises the issue of whether it should settle for being a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic, a giant Hong Kong or, worse, an “autonomous region” like Xinjiang or Tibet?
Manila Kowtows to Beijing
Does the Philippines deserve to exist as an independent country? The question might sound absurd if not also insulting, yet the determination of the Duterte government to do nothing to counter the occupation of its maritime space by China raises the issue of whether it should settle for being a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic, a giant Hong Kong or, worse, an “autonomous region” like Xinjiang or Tibet?
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