Thinking Pinoy
July 18, 2016
South China Sea 101: How Trillanes, DFA, MVP destroyed PH-CN ties
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In ThinkingPinoys PH-China on West Philippine Sea: The issue of trust, or the lack of it, I explained how the Philippines flip-flopped on its stance towards the South China dispute. One day we tell China we wanna talk, then we piss them off a day later. This happened on at least four different occasions through the second and third quarters of 2011.
Common sense dictates that the Philippines may not be as truthful as we would have hoped. Kapag nakaharap kasi tayo sa China, gusto nating makipagbati. Pero oras na pagtalikod natin, kabaligtaran ang ating ginagawa. Ang gulo-gulo talaga natin noong 2011, ang hirap ispelingin. In diplomatic terms, it appears na kinakabog natin ang North Korea sa level ng unpredictability.
Engaging in talks means openness to compromise. If we had zero intentions to compromise, why did we even bother to talk with China to begin with? We should have already gone to war and have the matter settled already. But we didnt.
And, despite the failed talks with China, the Aquino administration even had the balls to provoke the Chinese in July 2011 when various Philippine government agencies started addressing the area as the West Philippine Sea. [AsiaOne]
Wait lang, let's recap
Pasimplehin ko lang saglit ha
As a sovereign entity, the Philippines has the freedom to choose between a military and a diplomatic solution to address the South China Sea dispute. Now, a diplomatic solution requires the willingness of both parties to compromise, something thats hard to detect on the Philippines' part given our actions throughout 2011 [TP: Trust].
Our uncompromising stance made diplomacy ineffective, so why didnt we declare war against China right away? We still want the South China Sea dispute resolved, after all. So why don't we just resolve the issue through "Trial by Combat"?
Because everyone knows we will lose, as was already explained before [TP: Yasay's Face]
And in the middle of it all, we decided to unnecessarily provoke China even further when we unilaterally renamed the South China Sea into West Philippine Sea [Inq]!
"South China" to "West Philippine"?
So parang gusto nating makipag-diplomasya, pero tuwing babanggitin natin ang dagat, sinasampal natin sa kanila na West Philippine ito at hindi South China. Wala naman akong paki, kaya lang, pano magbubunga ang usapan kung harapan mong binabastos ang kausap mo?
Labo, ateh. Labo.
PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty
We wont lose because the US will help us via mutual defense, right?
Well, if the United States was really serious about helping us in a prospective war, it would have already issued stronger statements in as early as March 2011, but it did not. As a matter of fact, when the UNCLOS decision came out last week, the US used quiet diplomacy to persuade us to calm down [Reuters].
Pasimplehin ko lang ulit saglit ha:
Kunwari, jowa mo si Amerika. Kaibigan ni jowa si China.
Isang araw, napansin mong sinisiraan ka ni China. Sa sarili mo lang, gusto mo na talaga siyang umbagin, pero 51 ka lang at 610 si China. Wala ka talagang laban e. Nagsumbong ka kay jowa tapos sabi ni jowa, tutulungan ka, pero hindi niya sinabi kung paano.
Ikaw naman si *****, asa kang tutulungan ka, kaya tinext mo si China, Hoy China letse ka tatadyakan kita! Tapos biglang litaw si China sa kalsada sa harap ng bahay mo, may hawak daw na kutsilyo.
Nabalitaan ito ni jowa, tapos ang sabi sa yo ni Amerika, Huwag ka na lang lumabas ng bahay. Intindihin mo na lang si China.
********* yan, #Paasa. Niloloko na tayo ng harapan ng Amerika, para parin tayong tangang umaasa. Pero sige, dahil umaasa pa rin tayo na baka sakaling tulungan tayo ng Amerika, tuloy pa rin tayo sa pagputak.
Hay, hindi na natuto. Talagang tayong lahat ay baliw sa pag-ibig, no?
July 18, 2016
South China Sea 101: How Trillanes, DFA, MVP destroyed PH-CN ties
In ThinkingPinoys PH-China on West Philippine Sea: The issue of trust, or the lack of it, I explained how the Philippines flip-flopped on its stance towards the South China dispute. One day we tell China we wanna talk, then we piss them off a day later. This happened on at least four different occasions through the second and third quarters of 2011.
Common sense dictates that the Philippines may not be as truthful as we would have hoped. Kapag nakaharap kasi tayo sa China, gusto nating makipagbati. Pero oras na pagtalikod natin, kabaligtaran ang ating ginagawa. Ang gulo-gulo talaga natin noong 2011, ang hirap ispelingin. In diplomatic terms, it appears na kinakabog natin ang North Korea sa level ng unpredictability.
Engaging in talks means openness to compromise. If we had zero intentions to compromise, why did we even bother to talk with China to begin with? We should have already gone to war and have the matter settled already. But we didnt.
And, despite the failed talks with China, the Aquino administration even had the balls to provoke the Chinese in July 2011 when various Philippine government agencies started addressing the area as the West Philippine Sea. [AsiaOne]
Wait lang, let's recap
Pasimplehin ko lang saglit ha
As a sovereign entity, the Philippines has the freedom to choose between a military and a diplomatic solution to address the South China Sea dispute. Now, a diplomatic solution requires the willingness of both parties to compromise, something thats hard to detect on the Philippines' part given our actions throughout 2011 [TP: Trust].
Our uncompromising stance made diplomacy ineffective, so why didnt we declare war against China right away? We still want the South China Sea dispute resolved, after all. So why don't we just resolve the issue through "Trial by Combat"?
Because everyone knows we will lose, as was already explained before [TP: Yasay's Face]
And in the middle of it all, we decided to unnecessarily provoke China even further when we unilaterally renamed the South China Sea into West Philippine Sea [Inq]!
"South China" to "West Philippine"?
So parang gusto nating makipag-diplomasya, pero tuwing babanggitin natin ang dagat, sinasampal natin sa kanila na West Philippine ito at hindi South China. Wala naman akong paki, kaya lang, pano magbubunga ang usapan kung harapan mong binabastos ang kausap mo?
Labo, ateh. Labo.
PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty
We wont lose because the US will help us via mutual defense, right?
Well, if the United States was really serious about helping us in a prospective war, it would have already issued stronger statements in as early as March 2011, but it did not. As a matter of fact, when the UNCLOS decision came out last week, the US used quiet diplomacy to persuade us to calm down [Reuters].
Pasimplehin ko lang ulit saglit ha:
Kunwari, jowa mo si Amerika. Kaibigan ni jowa si China.
Isang araw, napansin mong sinisiraan ka ni China. Sa sarili mo lang, gusto mo na talaga siyang umbagin, pero 51 ka lang at 610 si China. Wala ka talagang laban e. Nagsumbong ka kay jowa tapos sabi ni jowa, tutulungan ka, pero hindi niya sinabi kung paano.
Ikaw naman si *****, asa kang tutulungan ka, kaya tinext mo si China, Hoy China letse ka tatadyakan kita! Tapos biglang litaw si China sa kalsada sa harap ng bahay mo, may hawak daw na kutsilyo.
Nabalitaan ito ni jowa, tapos ang sabi sa yo ni Amerika, Huwag ka na lang lumabas ng bahay. Intindihin mo na lang si China.
********* yan, #Paasa. Niloloko na tayo ng harapan ng Amerika, para parin tayong tangang umaasa. Pero sige, dahil umaasa pa rin tayo na baka sakaling tulungan tayo ng Amerika, tuloy pa rin tayo sa pagputak.
Hay, hindi na natuto. Talagang tayong lahat ay baliw sa pag-ibig, no?