Philippines and China's South China Sea Dispute

As we know, both Vi- Vietnam and Malaysia

have differences with China in South China Sea.

Yet both countries have effectively

managed these differences with China.

Why can't the Philippines do the same?

Or does the Philippines intend to act as

a proxy for external powers?

To our Chinese interlocutors, and thank you for

the propaganda spills disguised as questions.

Deng Xiaoping told the UN General Assembly that China

is not a superpower, nor will she ever

seek to be one, unquote. Over half a

century later, it is evident that the Chinese government

did not honor Deng Xiaoping's commitment.

No country in the world supports the

nine-dash line claim of China or the idea

that waters within this nine-dashed

line are internal waters of China.

Several countries in the world, no less than fifty, have

joined the Philippines in condemning China's behavior in the

South China Sea. Thus, for dialogue to be effective, it

must be coupled with trust, and China has a

lot of trust-building to do. I, for one,

cannot trust a country which

imposes, represses its own people.