IN comments during a radio interview on Sunday, Sen. Francis Tolentino made the alarming suggestion that cyberattacks be added as a condition that would trigger the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the US, "considering that the battlefield right now is not just only about the conventional armed conflict." While Tolentino's concerns about cyberattacks are justified, addressing them by way of the MDT is completely unnecessary and puts the Philippines at grave risk of becoming involved in an escalated conflict.

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