Still in Blunderland FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 02/12/2011

Still in Blunderland

FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares

02/12/2011
The way Noynoy and his student council government officials quarrel even concerning diplomatic relations, the Philippines, under the Aquino presidency will definitely have a tough time making friends and influencing people, much less attract foreign investments.

And the way Aquino and his boys have mishandled issues over the matter of the deportation of over a dozen Taiwanese nationals, sending them to the People’s Republic of China instead of the Republic of China (Taiwan), they will now be faced with a bigger problem, which is to find employment for the OFWs who are expected to be given a more difficult stay by the Taiwanese government.

While it is true that the country does not have diplomatic ties with Taiwan, owing to the One China policy, we do have, or used to have, strong economic ties with Taiwan. Besides, despite the fact that we do not have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, there is no denying that unofficially, the diplomatic ties between the two countries do exist, as the Taiwan Economic Council (Teco) as well as the Manila Economic Council (Meco) proves, with both representatives regarded as ambassadors.

But just because official diplomatic ties do not exist, there is no call for Noynoy and Malacañang propagandists to be so rude as to announce publicly that the Philippine government will not apologize to Taiwan, which rudeness would make the problem even bigger than it should have been..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110212com2.html