POLITICIANS like Jinggoy Estrada and Risa Hontiveros, who think being vehemently against China will make them so popular for a higher position, had better do some hard thinking.

An overwhelming majority of Filipinos — 81 percent — are worried that if the "geopolitical tensions between the US and China increases, the country's national security will be put at risk," according to a poll undertaken in June last year by the Eurasia Group Foundation, a respected political risk consultancy founded in 1998.

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