IT is sickening for the previous Yellow regime, especially its Foreign secretary Albert del Rosario, and just recently President Rodrigo Duterte's present Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries to be flag-waving in claiming that the arbitration suit President Benigno Aquino 3rd had filed against China was a "victory" for the Philippines.

The truth - if Duterte's officials would just bother to study the award and read international law experts' voluminous analyses on it (rather than reports of United States media) - is that it severely damaged our national interests on such a scale that Aquino and del Rosario could be deemed to have committed treason.

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