VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pimentel’s claim that Duterte may unilaterally cancel VFA needs context
The Supreme Court has not decided on the question of whether the president can unilaterally terminate a treaty or an agreement with other countries.
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EDCA may have spurred China’s expansion in SCS
IN their ecstasy over the Supreme Court decision declaring the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement constitutional and need not be ratified by the Senate, government officials are telling the Filipino people that the country is now in a better position to take on China in the territorial conflict in the Spratlys in the South China Sea.
EDCA minus Gazmin’s illusions
DEFENSE Secretary Voltaire Gazmin had no choice but to say what EDCA, the agreement he signed with the United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg last April 28, really is under strict questioning by Sen. Miriam Santiago, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
