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The Joker in the WPS battle

MY SAY

ALL of a sudden an analogy should stare us in the face for what all these years have been actually transpiring in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). A region of the South China Sea which has been popularly perceived as a sea of dispute between the Philippines and China could, without any of us realizing it, turn out to be a setting of the grandest Batman episode ever. For if the conflict were to be that blockbuster Hollywood serial, neither protagonists China and the Philippines is the winner in the final conflict but ever the hidden fiend, the Joker! Notice how each Batman episode ends: the Joker gets the last laugh.

Now, who is the Joker in the West Philippine Sea Battle?