Jose Cuisia, our ambassador to the US during the Aquino 3rd regime, said in a television interview the other day that the Chinese had agreed to leave Scarborough Shoal in June 2012 together with Philippine vessels. How did he know that? Kurt Campbell, the US assistant secretary of state for Asia, had told him so. Did he ask any Chinese official to confirm what the American official said? No. This was our ambassador to the US, chairman or CEO of this and that American-affiliated companies even when he held that post? I hope he wasn’t sold the Lincoln Memorial while he was at D. C.

Tiglao, R. D. (2021, May 14). Cuisia: ‘US diplomat told me Chinese would leave Panatag’. The Manila Times, pp. A1, A5.