n Clockwise from top left: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Rodrigo Duterte shake hands; Amanda Gorman, first national youth poet laureate, performs at the inauguration of US President Joe Biden; Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (left) receives US donations of bombs in November 2020; and China's donations of bridges and vaccines COLLAGE BY IDSI
Has she studied US unilateral attacks on other nations when the reasons were not established, e.g., even when European Union member-countries say Iran had substantially complied with their agreement, or shooting missiles just a day before the investigation started on alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons? Yes, Americans did “brave the belly of the beast,” but weren't they often the beast itself, born by invasion of an entire continent, Native Americans, Mexicans, Hawaiians, and lands beyond? Just as the beast was also a part of them, and perhaps a little of every one of us?