I DON'T think this paper, which has emerged as the most respected, thinking broadsheet in the past decade, is a dirty wall somewhere where angry, brainless slogans are painted in the guise of headlines for inane opinion columns.

I am referring to a column the other day, with the headline: "Sinicization of PH: On becoming China's 24th province." I was rather shocked as the last time I read that kind of crap declaring us as "China's province" was on a tarpaulin that apparently the deliriously Duterte-basher, the blogger Jover Claudio, hung two years ago on a pedestrian walkway, which was quickly torn down. A Times columnist echoing a crude blogger?

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