A lesson for us
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| Aldrin Cardon |
A temporary reprieve was the best deal Vice President Jejomar Binay could get from the People’s Court of China, which delayed the execution of three Filipinos found guilty of smuggling in a large amount of high-value illegal drugs into the powerful socialist country.
He could not call it a victory, but a temporary stay of their execution by firing squads is better than none, knowing how China was steadfast in its previous decisions on similar cases, even if it involved equally powerful countries, like Great Britain, which recently lost one of its citizens to Chinese bullets for heroin smugglling.
That China would give in to a request by a small fry in world politics like the Philippines is a big deal enough, especially since China is very strict in the enforcement of its laws, from which it draws the power that made it rise to become a superpower that even the United States could not ignore, especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which initially tilted the balance of power to the west.
China quickly rose to fill in the vacuum left by the former Soviet Union on the other side of the scale, and being given notice somehow proves the Philippines as an important regional partner to China, despite recent irritants between the our country and theirs, including the death of eight Hong Kong nationals during the tourist bus siege in August last year..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110221com6.html
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