AS reported by the Manila Bulletin, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. tweeted on Sunday: “What cements the reefs and waters as ours is the Arbitral Award won by PNoy, Del Rosario et al. They had no allies; no support from other countries least of all Southeast Asia which tried to sabotage the Arbitral Award when they saw it coming. We owe it to PNoy et al only.”

This is too patently, incontrovertibly, inarguably wrong. It is shocking coming from the mouth of Duterte’s foreign affairs secretary.

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