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you seem to be forgetting the get up and go enthusiasm of the filipino worker, you seem to be forgetting this is a predominantly catholic country, try to explain to the chinese business man that his new road is two years behind schedule, because of christmas. easter, buglasan, sipon, this day and that day, and also the filipinos need their sleep

the chinese want land land land land...to produce food, most of the their land is polluted the water is the same way, population will go through the roof now they have eased some of the one child policy, here now you must have the biggest population of 40+ women preggers

and they will buy buy buy buy buy all the land they can dont be under any illusion folks, this is a water shed moment........................du30 is drowning and will take all with him

 

Yeah, this happened on Obama's watch. Somehow the most pro-US nation in S.E. Asia is now talking "cutting ties". This will be for Hillary to clean up, hopefully. We don't need another bat-sh*t crazy world leader and Trump would be in over his head dealing with China and Russia. Of course, Duterte is over his head as well. The Chinese must have been beside themselves, Duterte just jumped in their lap and looked weak. I bet they could have got a reach-around if they asked for one.

It will be interesting to see how the U.S. responds to this. With one of the major pieces of the game handed to the Chinese, I don't see how it's worth continuing to bother with the area. But the influence game continues.

From the U.S. perspective, the Philippines just gave up all it's leverage. I doubt this would happen, but imagine if the U.S. used human rights as an excuse to go whole hog on pushing back. Pull all aid, GTFO of the country and send Filipino citizens back home. Duterte's popularity rating could drop like a rock and problem solved. The next president patches things up and game back on.

 

This is the way it started in 1986. Protests at the embassy will spread to the other provinces. I was hold up inside my house in Olongapo for a week before I finally got escorted to Manila for a flight to Cubi Point Naval Air station. This time it will probably take longer to spread to the rest of the country. How long? Any bodies guess is as good as the others. I would suggest that registering your location with the embassy of your home country would be a good idea.