Would have helped to still have Subic Bay Naval Base.
Isn’t Duterte a little unstable?
Sweeten the deal for us, Rod. 30 year lease at 2 million per.
The PI just invites the Chinese in to build a 5G phone network. Time to pick a side, eh?
Fine, give the U.S. back Subic Bay, rebuild it, end the anti-American rhetoric and then we’ll give you our answer.
The Philippine president is a two faced hypocrite.
He says whatever is populist at any time, but when it comes to confronting China on its infringement on atolls in the seas claimed by the Philippines, he does nothing, really. Meanwhile he is allowing the Chinese telecom Huwei to become the dominant cell phone service provider in the Philippines, jeaprodozing the security of U.S. military assitance there.
Duterte’s background is not populist. During the long Marcos era he was very much with the Marxists.
Even Vietnam has requested for us to return to Cam Ranh Bay.
Wait ,what ,I thought Duterte butt kissing the Chinese and hating the US ,ya ,he crazy
China is going to need to get their p-p whacked in that entire region sooner or later.
Better sooner — before they build their military up any more than they have already
And get them off the disputed islands and make them restore the billions of $$$ of coral they destroyed in the name of ‘improvements’. Doesn’t the UN have some sort of EPA?