In the game of the South China Sea disputes, Aquino and del Rosario dropped the Scarborough Shoal ball. He immediately answered without any hesitation: Scarborough Shoal… I completely agreed with him… in 2012, China seized Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines.”Carpio’s statements is one of the many instances of his crass intellectual dishonesty in his e-book. This was reported extensively in the newspapers, and summarized in several books and scholarly articles on the South China Sea controversy. While all Philippine vessels left the lagoon, the Chinese vessels remained. The President told me that Secretary del Rosario told him about the agreement reached in Washington,” Trillanes wrote.

Source: Manila Times July 13, 2017 16:18 UTC