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As Manila prepares for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping two weeks from now, Beijing steps up its control of the Spratlys islands in South China Sea, the latest of which is the announcement that they have started the operation of a marine observation center in the artificial islands that they have built in areas that the Philippines and four other countries claim.

It looks like another naive, impulsive move, but turning over the Bureau of Customs to the military is possibly the most dangerous move Duterte has hatched.

There is something very wrong about the statement of AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito Galvez praising the President for agreeing to the rule of law.

It took only a single act by one man to restore the fading faith of democracy –loving Filipinos in the country’s justice system.

It takes courage not to toe the President’s line.

To many families, politics is a family business. And they prefer it to be a monopoly.

Christopher Lawrence Go, popularly known as Bong Go, special assistant to President Duterte until last Monday, made a mark in the country’s electoral history by filing his certificate of candidacy for senator the 2019 midterm elections accompanied no less by the highest official of the land.

Things will never be the same between China and President Duterte after the latter’s unprovoked comment about businessman Michael Yang and Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua at the dinner with officers and members Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association, Inc. last Oct. 4 in Malacañang.

The shaming of Party List ( ACTS OFW) Rep. Aniceto Bertiz, III (which he fully deserves) quickly caught on because of the closed-circuit television video which was circulated in Social Media.

This time, President Duterte is telling the truth: he has killed people without the victim or victims going through due process.

Former Scout Ranger Abe Purugganan, co-founder of the Young Officers Union, a group of rebel military officers in the late 80s, who is now a diehard Duterte supporter posted in his Facebook wall his assessment of the national situation.

Papaano ito naging “nasa isip lang natin?”