THE enemy is at the gate — if one only calculates the distance between the Ayungin and the Scarborough Shoals from the nearest points of undisputed Philippine territory, and it is clearly within — as the escape of Alice Guo, her sister and Cassandra Ong blatantly demonstrates. The subject of countless hours of Senate and House investigations and indicted for various offenses, they managed to go under the radar and elude every supposed 'safeguard' to keep them from fleeing.

The People's Republic of China cannot be a friend — no matter that its apologists in our midst scream till they are hoarse that we should be counting them among our friends and not excluding them as our foes.