WELL, going by the statements of three senators, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spokesman, very disappointingly of the new defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. as well as Armed Forces chief Romeo Brawner, and the headlines of the Philippines Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star, a state of war exists, or will soon exist, between us and China, ever since the Chinese coast guard used water cannons against our PCG vessels.
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada in the halls of the Senate called me a traitor — for reporting an incontrovertible fact that his father Erap when he was president, or his administration, had promised the Chinese that the BRP Sierra Madre and the BRP Benguet — the former deliberately run aground in Ayungin Shoal, the latter in Scarborough Shoal — would be towed away. This is an incontestable fact, bolstered by the Foreign Affairs secretary's and Erap's Defense secretary's silence on this issue.
Did he have to tell that to the world, which is practically giving the Chinese the dirty finger?Do what you have to do or think what you have to do, General Brawner, but don't tell China your plans, which after reading you will now certainly double or even triple their coast guard vessels — I suspect even have scores of their fishermen — to blockade Ayungin Shoal, just as they did in Scarborough Shoal in 2012.
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