The Fourth Perspective

It is no secret, and history will tell us that the Philippines since the Spanish era has yet to cross the verge from poverty principally due to manipulation and monopoly by foreign and local power of its resources.  Old phrases such as tobacco monopoly, the mining monopoly, the parity rights, the levies and so on had brought undue misery and hardships. The inequality and the disparaging utilization of the Philippine natural resources in favor of foreign power and the elite had precluded genuine progress. And here now comes the present, with the dwindling wealth and resources in the west the powers of the east and west is racing back towards Africa and South-East Asia to renew and introduce a new brand of colonization using the same old but time proven and effective gun boat diplomacy. The Philippines is again stunned, bewildered by the display of might and military power. In the same way their native ancestors had been awed before them. It was because the Philippine’s has faile...

I do not know! I’m neither a patriot nor a hero ... but just a fellow .. with a Barong blade under my pillow; do you know... I have been hearing a cry since ... sometime ago; calling a name that says ...  “Filipino” ; the cry was frail but "claro" by  the lady in white, red, and blue; she said my son where are you? … do you still love me like you used to? why is it that I cannot hear you? …as if you’d been away for more than a few; I said I’m ashamed I have forgotten you … I was too busy feeding all the blues; I am the lady in white, red, and blue …whose heart is bleeding out for you; will you see me through... at this time, that I truly long for you? and I remember ... this lady from long ago, who cuddled me since I was two; I was a lost son and not just a beau to the lady in white, red and blue; and so I came to the call of the lady in white, red and blue... withou...

The U.S. debt runs to about $16.7 trillion as of February 2013 and China , which owns an estimated $1.22 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds, is the number-one investor among foreign governments, according to the February 2013 figures released by the U.S. Treasury. This amounts to over 21% of the U.S. debt held overseas and more than 7% of the United States ’ total debt load. Apart from that, the following excerpt from various online business reports recapitulates some of the chinese significant direct investments in the United States , to wit: “Investment and capacity data is available for about 50 projects, according to which China  has invested $10 billion in 16 projects and $27.5 billion in 38 solar power projects, which represent a cumulative generation capacity of 6,000 MW. Interestingly, the majority of the investments have been made in developed countries, led by the United States , Germany , and Italy . While...

“We will oppose the change of status quo by force by anyone,”   This was a recent statement made by Admiral Samuel Locklear, the commander of the US Pacific Command concerning the dispute over the territories at the West Philippine Sea. The declaration should be comforting and reassuring especially for the Philippines that has the weakest military in the region. However, the statement is less clear than the ambiguous terms of the mutual defense agreement between the Philippines and the United States  in relation to the current events at West Philippine Sea .  Certain things however is apparent, the status quo had been breached; force and coercion had been used… only there was no armed resistance; the atolls, islets and territorial waters belonging to the Philippines under the status quo is now occupied by China’s heavily armed frigates disguised as maritime surveillance ships. The construction of Chinese bases on these occupied areas according to recent reports has s...