Failure to protect sovereignty“The President’s policy is to appease China at the expense of the nation’s maritime zones and natural resources. “On our Independence Day, we, the Filipino people, should vow to assert our sovereign independence and oppose any vassalage to, or appeasement of, any foreign power,” Carpio added. Farmers also demanded an end to China’s “imperialist aggression” in the country, with its “continued violations of Philippine sovereignty” under the Duterte administration. Duterte’s blatant refusal to defend our national sovereignty against foreign aggressors makes clear that he is a coward and traitor to the Filipino people,” Soriano said. The peasant group added that unless the government’s “subservience to China” ends, “our resources will be depleted if Duterte remains in power beyond 2022.”Read Next

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 12, 2021 21:38 UTC