President Rodrigo Duterte (L) receives a warm welcome from People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping prior to the start of the Leaders’ Roundtable Discussion of the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Yanqi Lake International Convention Center on April 27, 2019. Simeon Celi Jr. / PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / file
DAVAO CITY – Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte claimed that Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian had warned him that “the Philippines will not be spared from Beijing’s wrath” if Manila will allow the United States to utilize its military installations to launch an “aggressive action” against China.
The former president urged both the Philippine and US governments to inform the Filipino people about the arrangements involving US military bases under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement . The locations already in the agreement are the Cesar Basa Air Base in Pampanga, Fort Magsaysay Military Reservation in Nueva Ecija, Lumbia Air Base in Cagayan de Oro City, Antonio Bautista Air Base in Palawan and Mactan Benito Ebuen Air Base in Cebu, it said.“In the interest of the public’s right to know, there should be an open discussion.
“I said by granting America several bases, we can be sure, and I am sure as the sun rises in the east, that these bases… will have nuclear warheads,” he said. Duterte said that the consequence of a US attack on China “would be a retaliation with nuclear arms against the Philippines.”
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