I DO not like it at all that, in different ways, we have behaved ourselves in unseemly obsequiousness towards China. No servility towards China, not to any country. There is no need to stir antagonism, and a becoming amity between nations is always best for the world, and particularly for a part of the world as strategically sensitive as Southeast Asia and its waters, the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), to be specific. As for those activists who take to the streets whenever one of their leaders has had a bad dream or is suffering from a bad case of constipation, who always rile against the “imperyalismo” of the United States, why do I not hear a peep from them about the imperialism of the Middle Kingdom that continues to believe that it remains the center of the world — and swaggers about like it is?