WHILE referring to life in general, Shakespeare's famous quote applies so well to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration's two-year chapter in trying to prove that we control Ayungin Shoal and that we can supply the BRP Sierra Madre, deliberately grounded since 1999, not only with food that the Marines stationed there need but also repair materials for the dilapidated vessel. Marcos Ayungin chapter has been "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
The Philippines and China are back to former president Joseph Estrada's agreement made 25 years ago with the Chinese, designed for both sides not to lose face. The Chinese won't forcibly remove the Sierra Madre that Estrada's defense secretary had ordered the Navy to ground there in 1999 as a symbol of our sovereignty, which Estrada didn't authorize.
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