SunStar
May 05, 2021
That President Rodrigo Duterte only has harsh words against former Supreme Court chief justice Antonio Carpio and top diplomats of the administration of former President Noynoy Aquino on the issue of Chinese ships’ incursions into the West Philippine Sea only shows that the current dispensation recognizes this as a major issue in the coming elections. And with the United States having learned its lessons from the last elections that saw a pro-China President take over Malacañang, the Duterte administration is now feeling the pressure of public opinion taking an anti-China slant.
I do not have solid proof, but after decades of observing how the US influences our politics, I could sense that the US Central Intelligence Agency is now silently working in our midst. The next elections in the country would no longer be won by default by Chinese operatives. This happened in Malaysia when its aging leader Mahathir Muhammad rejoined the political fray after a pro-China leader got elected in that country.