I have really nothing against APEC. I am just not too well versed on what it can do for the majority of us. In my opinion (in case anyone wants to know), it should have been held in a more controlled environment like Subic or Clark where the necessary infrastructure could have been built in the years since we knew we would be the next host. The airport runways are in place, the sites are secure, traffic, roads, venues would have been easier to do given the lead time. And the citizens of Metro Manila would not have been so put upon. This is just a wish of one citizen and it is now moot and academic.
But let us move on and regard it as a tourist activity that will bring us some compensation for the P10 billion the government spent.
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