If you don’t lose sleep over that next-door arsenal, why would you suddenly panic over roaming guards? That would then justify increased military deployment in the South China Sea by the United States and its Quadrilateral allies Japan, Australia and India. To confront or not to confrontSo, what to do about bombers, missiles, radar-jamming gear, and the whole reclamation and construction encroaching on Philippine territory and continental shelf? Plus: Beijing’s “nine-dash” claim—voided by the PCA ruling—over nearly all the South China Sea and every reef, shoal and island in it. No wonder President Duterte has urged waiting till we have ample forces to assert sovereign rights.

Source: Manila Times May 21, 2018 16:18 UTC