The CCP is tightening its grip. Already, Malacañang allows unlimited Chinese poaching in the WPS, under a “verbal agreement” with President Xi Jinping. It set aside Manila’s victory in the Permanent Court of Arbitration that illegalized China’s occupation of Scarborough Shoal and seven reefs. It forbade the Armed Forces from joint patrols with allies in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. “Make us a province of China,” it even crassly joked. Bowing to Chinese wishes, legislators now allow full foreign ownership of telecoms, railways and airlines. Governors license Chinese to mine and ship out nickel ore.

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