I stand fully behind Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.
Filipinos are a grateful people. We do not forget genuine help, and we say salamat when thanks is due. But gratitude is not a price tag on our sovereignty. No vaccine, no shipment of fertilizer, and no infrastructure project buys the right to violate our rights in the West Philippine Sea, to harass our fishermen, or to aim water cannons and military-grade lasers at our Coast Guard vessels.
The Secretary did not “bite the hand that feeds.” He simply refused to let that hand cover our eyes while the other hand takes what is ours under UNCLOS and the 2016 Arbitral Award. To question whether long-term good faith exists is not ingratitude — it is honesty.
And if assistance is given only so it can later be waved in our faces to demand our silence, then it was never kindness to begin with — it was leverage. True kindness is never thrown back as a debt. The moment help is turned into a weapon, it ceases to be kindness and becomes coercion.
China is most welcome to be a true friend of the Philippines. But a true friend does not ask you to surrender your sovereignty and sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea as the price of friendship.
‘MAG-FACEBOOK LIVE KA NA LANG’
Sen. Ping Lacson on Sunday referenced a quote as he took a swipe at those he described as “weak on both law and facts.”
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@News5PH Hindi po sir. Iyong pinalutang ninyo si Bato Dela Rosa, kahit madapa na, at masugatan ang EGO, pumasok para lang iboto si Alan Peter Cayetano. Iyon po ang power grab. Nasaan na nga ulit si Bato? Nagtago na?
Noong 2015, nandito si Pia Cayetano, Alan Peter Cayetano, at Loren Legarda noon nakabuo sila ng quorum consists of 12 members at si Franklin Drilon ang nagpreside. Bakit ngayon dami ebas nyang mga yan na illegal at unconstitutional ang quorum noong June 3? 🤭 Pakiexplain naman po sa madlang pipol.
Imee Marcos sharing fake news, again.
Left is the "malita" photo of Tito and Ping. Right is the campaign photo from Daet, CamSur to Sorsogon. @sotto_tito@iampinglacson
“When you’re strong on the law, pound the law. When you’re strong on the facts, pound the facts. When you’re weak on both…” — mag-Facebook live ka na lang.
@News5PH kung ipipilit ni Facebook President APC na cya din ang Senate President, waste of time makipagmeeting, sasapawan lang c Win sa non-stop and irritable voice nya
Ang mukha ng kahihiyan sa public service. Kapit-tuko sa pwesto. MANIPULATOR. Sick to his core in bending laws to his gains. Protector of wanted criminals and plunderers. Worst, he even believes that senate presidency is his birth-right title.
HUWAG TULARAN.
#CAYETANOSOUT
⚠️ Madam Lowren Legarda, hindi ka lang mali sa legal opinion mo, in ESTOPPEL ka din.
Pitong (7) beses ka naging parte ng session na ang quorum na ginamit ay 12.
You did not object in plenary nuon. You did not file a case in court nuon.
Tapos ngayon ngangawa ka!
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