Why promise not to give an inch of the country’s territory?


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“Except for the limitations imposed by UNCLOS, and by international law, the navy of the People’s Liberation Army in the South China Sea has every right to remain there” Many could recall the speech of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his State of the Nation Address last July 25, 2022 when he said, with much bravado, that his government would not surrender an inch of the nation’s territory. Maybe it was meant to alley the suspicion of those sectors who continue to cling on to the invincibility of the American glory; that the Philippines would remain a faithful comrade-in-arms of...