HK ONLINE PUBLICATION: AQUINO CAN’T MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS
Noynoy tentative, naïve on execution
02/21/2011President Aquino is again getting noticed for his lack of resolve in confronting issues facing his administration this time on his uncertain approach on the case of the three Filipinos up for execution in China as a result of drug offenses.
In an analysis titled “The Philippines’ Tentative President,” Hong Kong-based online publication Asia Sentinel called Aquino naive who surrendered Philippine democratic principles without getting anything in return in reference to his decision for a snub of the Nobel Prize award ceremony which included a peace award to a Chinese dissident.
“It had already been made clear by the government in Manila that its absence from the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Norway was due to its concern to gain favor with China and convince it to commute the death sentences. That just might have been a worthwhile trade off if there had actually been a trade. But a naïve Aquino surrendered Philippine democratic principles without getting anything in return. Its boycott of the Oslo ceremony was a fruitless gesture,” according to Asia Sentinel..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110221hed1.html
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