Tag: Philippine sovereignty

Duterte on why PHL has closer ties with China, Russia: Both respect PHL sovereignty, US does not

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte believes the country has stronger ties with Russia and China than with the United States because the two countries respect Philippine sovereignty. “Because America continues to look at us as a vassal state because we were under the Americans for 50 years and they lived off the fat of the land before we got our independence,” Duterte told RT television. According to the President, “it’s not only the Philippines, but it’s […]

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Palace on US Senate panel reso backing De Lima, Ressa: It’s a “brazen, heedless affront” to PHL sovereignty

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Dec. 14, slammed a United States Senate panel approval of a resolution calling for the release of Senator Leila de Lima and an end to the alleged harassment of Rappler’s Maria Ressa, calling it a “brazen and heedless affront against the dignity” of the country’s sovereignty. “It is an undisguised and outrageous intrusion to a sovereign state. There can be no excuse for the US Senate Committee not to know […]

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