We trivialize the loss of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and the damage the Yellows’ anti-China policy has wrought on the nation if we merely call for debate on it. We trivialize the fact that our quarrel with China was due to an oligarchic group rushing to be energy giants if we merely debate on it. A debate isn’t what is needed. What’s necessary is simply putting facts out in the light of day, which the Yellows have managed to hide because of their control of a substantial part of media. The only beneficiary of such debates will be lawyer Antonio Carpio if my thesis is accurate that he has all this time merely been lawyering for that First Pacific-led oligarchic group, whose project since 2011 to extract gas in the disputed Reed (Recto) Bank had been blocked by China.

Tiglao, R. D. (2021, May 12). Not a debate but full-blown probe of Panatag loss, anti-China drive needed. The Manila Times, pp. A1, A5.