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Debacle: The Aquino regime’s Scarborough fiasco and the South China Sea arbitration deception.
For the first time since its independence, the Philippines lost a piece of its territory, Scarborough Shoal, tragically because of the colossal blunders of President Aquino III himself and his administration. At the start of his term, Aquino marked out the People’s Republic of China as his enemy and continuously pilloried his country’s largest trading partner, a course that would have led to economic catastrophe if President Duterte had not reversed it.
In this groundbreaking work, based on solid data and erstwhile secret documents, premier investigative reporter Rigoberto D. Tiglao exposes the lies and deceptions surrounding the loss of Scarborough Shoal as well as the true nature of the Aquino regime's arbitration case against China.
While that administration sought to portray that “lawfare” as a way to get back Scarborough, it was in fact, a project to advance the ambitious business plans of a trio of tycoons, which jibed in the early years of US President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” with the superpower’s scheme to restore its military bases in the Philippines in a new form and to undertake a devious propaganda machination to demonize China in the South China Sea dispute.
This book also exposes how a local oligarchy in partnership with the US can be so powerful that it could use both local Philippine and Western media to conceal from both Filipinos and the world what the Aquino administration’s antagonistic stance and suit against China really were about.
In this groundbreaking work, based on solid data and erstwhile secret documents, premier investigative reporter Rigoberto D. Tiglao exposes the lies and deceptions surrounding the loss of Scarborough Shoal as well as the true nature of the Aquino regime's arbitration case against China.
While that administration sought to portray that “lawfare” as a way to get back Scarborough, it was in fact, a project to advance the ambitious business plans of a trio of tycoons, which jibed in the early years of US President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” with the superpower’s scheme to restore its military bases in the Philippines in a new form and to undertake a devious propaganda machination to demonize China in the South China Sea dispute.
This book also exposes how a local oligarchy in partnership with the US can be so powerful that it could use both local Philippine and Western media to conceal from both Filipinos and the world what the Aquino administration’s antagonistic stance and suit against China really were about.
294 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2022
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