China is fuming mad at the decision of the Philippines to grant the United States access to four more military bases. They have been quick to warn the Philippines that the bases destabilize the Indo-Pacific region. They should look at themselves in the mirror. If only they did not wantonly disregard the hundreds of protests the Philippines has lodged against their crude cabbage expansionist strategy in the West Philippine Sea, all the while duplicitously extending the hand of friendship and cooperation between our two nations, things would have been different.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/162270/the-aquino-marcos-one-two-punch

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