WE Filipinos take few of our policy problems seriously. But I don’t think we can laugh off our South China Sea situation.

We got embroiled without thinking in the South China Sea land-grabs—having neither the will nor the means to defend’ our claims. (Re-naming it the ‘West Philippine Sea’ was pathetic.) But now we’re engaged, we must accept that China is deadly serious in its effort to dominate East Asia’s great inland sea.

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