THE Marcos government was outsmarted by the China Coast Guard to lose Escoda Shoal, which the Chinese call Xianbin Jiao. The Chinese also thwarted the US plan to turn Philippine vessels into cannon fodder in its campaign to demonize the Chinese as the violent bullies in Asia.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in just two months, has lost two of the maritime areas that the Philippines has been claiming as part of its exclusive economic zone, the Ayungin and Escoda Shoals.
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