AQUINO, DEL ROSARIO AND MEDIA HID THE LOSS OF PANATAG TO CHINA FROM THE NATION

PHILIPPINES
By Rigoberto D. Tiglao
The Manila Times-June 25

It’s a cliché for sure, but I can’t help using it in disgust over the episode: “Only I,n the Philippines.” Indeed, where else could a nation’s loss of its territory be hidden for so long by its President, with the help of a media that claims to be independent?
The inept Aquino government on June 3, 2012 gave up Panatag Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc or Scarborough Shoal) to the Chinese, yet managed to keep it under wraps, so that the truth came out only in trickles over several years. So much so that many Filipinos, even knowledgeable ones, are unaware of that enormous loss, and how it happened, to this day.

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First published in: The Manila Times