SASS ROGANDO SASOT

SO, Marites Vitug has declared President Rodrigo Duterte incompetent in the field of foreign policy. In her article in Rappler (“The year of living with autocracy and incompetence,” June 20, 2017), Vitug wrote that Duterte dismissed “outright peaceful avenues” to urge China to comply with the decision on the arbitral case filed by the Aquino administration against Beijing. Vitug put her faith in the unrealistic and ahistorical foreign policy prescriptions of pundits who recommended strengthening “alliances [with other South China Sea] claimant countries as well as allies to put pressure on China.”

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