Browsing The Manila Times by Author "Tiglao, Rigoberto D."

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    • AFP Chief lied on new 'illegal structures' at Union Banks 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 12, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Or perhaps Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana was just fed the wrong information or just ignorant of the Spratly Islands dispute, when he claimed last April 1 that the Chinese had built new illegal ...

    • Aquino-del Rosario offered Sabah to Malaysia for its support in arbitration case vs. China 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, September 18, 2019, on page A1-A5)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) under President Benigno Aquino 3rd's watch, then headed by Albert del Rosario, practically offered to drop our decades-old claim over Sabah against Malaysia in exchange for Kula ...

    • Arbitration 'award': A P1-billion useless piece of paper 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, May 7, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      President Duterte was absolutely correct when he remarked the other night that the “award” (i.e., ruling) of the arbitration suit that the Aquino 3rd administration brought against China in 2013 was a useless “piece of ...

    • Arbitration ruling opened us to Chinese or Vietnamese military aggression in South China Sea 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, July 20, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      It is sickening for the previous Yellow regime, especially its Foreign secretary Albert del Rosario, and just recently President Rodrigo Duterte’s present Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries to be flag-waving in claiming ...

    • Arbitration suit vs China: A colossal hoax 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, August 5, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      It has been a colossal hoax pulled off with astonishing success by the pro-American Yellow Cult: that the award handed down by an arbitral panel in the suit brought by former president Benigno Aquino 3rd and his government ...

    • Carpio and Sison are PH's biggest liars: First of 3 parts 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, May 3, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio will go down in our history as one of the biggest liars ever, over a public discourse affecting our national interest. Only Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria ...

    • Carpio, Aquino regime disseminated spurious EEZ maps 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, February 10, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Stupid, bungling or lying conspirators — you decide. For all their flag-waving shrieks that China is encroaching on our exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and must be fought even to the point of war — as Benigno Aquino 3rd ...

    • Chinese maritime militia invasion a hoax; Duterte should fire Lorenzana and Locsin 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 23, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      A month after the hysterics, sadly participated in by our own Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries, the so-called “intrusion” by 200 Chinese “maritime militia in our territory” is turning out to be a hoax. It is a hoax ...

    • Colossal blowback: PH arbitration suit prodded, justified China's island-building blitz 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, July 15, 2019, on page A1-A5)
      Three years after the five-man arbitral tribunal ruled almost entirely in favor of the Aquino government’s maritime claims against China that invoked the Unclos provisions, its real impact has become so crystal clear, yet ...

    • Cuisia: ‘US diplomat told me Chinese would leave Panatag’ 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, May 14, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      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 ...

    • Deception debacle, through two decades 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, November 19, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      My new book, out next month, is entitled Debacle: The Aquino Regime's Scarborough Fiasco and the South China Sea Arbitration Deception. To be frank, it will be such an eye-opener that I am hoping, in the spirit of Christmas, ...

    • Del Rosario lost Panatag to China 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 26, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      The gall of former foreign affairs secretary Albert del Rosario to even open his mouth on the Whitsun Reef brouhaha and to admonish the Duterte administration to do this or that in dealing with China. In an article prominently ...

    • Duterte is wrong to call Carpio buang... or maybe not 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, June 28, 2019, on page A1-A5)
      President Duterte is wrong to call Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio buang, for criticizing his statement to allow Chinese fishermen access to “Philippine waters.” Buang means stupid — certainly a description that applies ...

    • Duterte: Boracay is government property 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 11, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      It is downright astonishing that not a single media outlet used that earthshaking announcement as its headline for what should have been a front-page news article. The mindset, it seems, is that it is too far-fetched that ...

    • Exploiting arbitration ruling, Malaysia claims most of our Kalayaan Island Groups 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, August 12, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      What did former President Benigno Aquino 3rd, his Foreign Affairs secretary Albert del Rosario and his solicitor general Florin Hilbay do when they brought the arbitration suit against China before the Permanent Court of ...

    • Generals should shut up on international disputes 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 16, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana in a phone call disputed the headline of my column last Monday that said he “lied on new illegal structures” at Union Banks, where Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef is. He ...

    • Locsin and Lorenzana so terribly misinformed about PH vs China arbitration 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, July 17, 2020, on page A1-A5)
      If President Duterte has foreign affairs and defense department secretaries who demonstrate astonishing nescience over a very important matter as the Philippines vs China arbitration, he should be very worried. If the two ...

    • Manila Bay clean-up: ‘Broken windows’ theory on a grand scale 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, January 30, 2019, on page A1-A6)
      It is not an exaggeration to say that President Duterte’s dramatically termed “Battle for Manila Bay,” his grand project to clean up what has been the polluted-landscape symbol of the Philippines, will be a watershed in ...

    • Not a debate but full-blown probe of Panatag loss, anti-China drive needed 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, May 12, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      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 ...

    • Pag-asa Island? Oops, arbitration award ruled it’s just a rock 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto D. (The Manila Times, April 8, 2019, on page A1-A5)
      Our Pag-Asa Island in the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), as well as three other features that Marcos had called islands when he annexed the area in 1978 through his Presidential Decree 1596, are all in the Spratly Islands, ...