A dream Filipino foreign policy

IT must be the pure sea breeze in Cagbalete Island that has induced us to a deep slumber, dreaming a paradigm on our foreign policy: We have entered into an “entente” with China, the awakened Dragon of Asia.

The axiom, “There are no permanent alliances; there are only permanent interests,” has been with mankind since the dawn of history. Will and Ariel Durant relate that there had been dazzling “reversals of alliances,” for instance, during the mid-18th century, or the Seven Years’ War in Europe, to maintain peace or to make war.