News Snapshot:
“The country will not lose one inch of its territory,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told graduates of the Philippine Military Academy last week, reiterating what he said during his inauguration on June 30 last year. That he is taking a consistent position on the territorial and maritime dispute with China in the South China Sea is a positive development. It demonstrates his firm resolve to uphold national sovereignty, territorial integrity and the national interest as mandated by no less than our fundamental law. The Philippine government should not budge an inch from its duty to defend our Exclusive Economic Zone...
