‘Am-boy’ envoys gang up on Yasay
THE gall of our ambassador to the US Jose Cuisia and the former foreign affairs secretary to berate President Duterte’s foreign affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay, Jr. for allegedly not pushing the Asean hard enough to demand China’s compliance with the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration favoring the Philippine suit!
That is the problem when the government appoints political envoys, especially rich ones who are too full of themselves they ignore the discipline of the Foreign Service Corps. Worse, when so obviously pro-American – labeled in the 1970s as “Amboys” – that they think their era of Pax Americana still runs to this day, even in Asia.
that the foreign affairs secretary is not his personal position but that -
pesos in compensation from eight huge companies of which he is vice - (Philam What must the US think of us, that compensation for their government
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can publicly criticize the incumbent government’s stance on this
our ambassador an American envoy. Has he forgotten that our military force isn’t that
- Philippines, that he now thinks like in reality, is the American program
From New York
Yasay for his stance on the Asean meeting is former foreign affairs sec
Del Rosario, who presents himself that a former foreign affairs secretary the country’s foreign affairs policy,
- him by Senator Antonio Trillanes that the foreign affairs secretary simultaneously with the Philippine there. That’s how we lost the Scar
- - - brilliant US maneuver to put pressure on the emerging superpower to ease up on its expansion in the -
As I’ve written in previous col - - tarily or legally in the area. It is pact, but with categorical quali any territory that it claims. The US cannot count on any of the other - tries are pragmatic nationalists.
America’s proxy
- ippines, with high-ranking pro - than willing to make the country America’s proxy.
- - cism of the Philippine stance on the issue at the Asean meeting, a
The Jakarta Post Philippine Daily
Inquirer Excerpts from that piece:
- ous test as a new community, one the regional group this week came up with a common response to the Sea.
by their foreign ministers meeting - tries openly subscribe to, although
Skeptics took their cue from the ASEAN’s history, then also over that confrontational communiqué which most of the Asean nations country can veto a communiqué,
- - tion of activities in the area, which -
- - further complicate the situation
No one can accuse ASEAN of skirting the thorny issue when eight
investments.
While none of the ASEAN claimant countries are backing off from Sea, they continue to pin their hopes