Here's a recent meme from Thinking Millenials or better renamed as Unthinking Millenials want to emphasize. They want to emphasize that if President Rodrigo R. Duterte can't stand up for the Filipino people against China then a woman will. However, the big question that the need to answer is, "Can Leni Loud Robredo really stand up against China's aggression?" to be followed up by, "How does she intend to stand up against it?"
I don't deny that President Duterte is indeed tactless but do they forget that Leni Loud herself is also tactless? Do you remember that taho-throwing incident done by a stupid Chinese lady where she said something that could have launched a war? President Duterte's silence on that matter doesn't mean that he approved of what the stupid Chinese lady did. Unfortunately, many Filipinos tend to suffer from the fallacy where they assume that silence means yes. However, such silence may also mean the person is still in doubt. Haven't they heard of the statement that says, "Be silent when you doubt your sense?" President Duterte's current silence may be because he's thinking of a solution of how to resolve that stupid Chinese vessel incident that claimed the lives of Filipino fishermen.
I dare agree with Leni Loud that the Chinese vessel that sank Filipino boat must stand trial in the Philippines but there are precautions to take. The Philippines is militarily not ready to withstand China's army. China can't be defeated by a couple of Filipinos with no military experience who will just march with their insults against the Chinese people. They can go ahead and do their Penoy Prayd march but that can't sink a single boat or get rid of a single military plane by the Chinese military. She's again stating the Captain Obvious. The people who manned that Chinese vessel should be tried in the Philippines. It's because ANY foreigner who commits a crime in a foreign land should be tried in the place where they committed the offense. It's just like Filipinos that committed crimes abroad must be tried abroad. The Philippines can only convict people regardless of citizenship if said violations happened in its territory. The Philippine authorities have the duty to arrest those Chinese responsible for the incident.
Just thinking about Leni Loud's tactless behavior would make you think, "How in the world can she handle diplomacy?" She already did plenty of stupid stuff. Do you even remember what she did at the Holocaust memorial in Germany or what she did in Saudi Arabia by not following the guidelines for women? I wonder how does she will even handle diplomacy with China if ever she was sent there to handle the current crisis? Maybe, she may end up spending time doing leisure shopping in China rather than do her job of mending the strained relations between the two political entities. Worse, she may even end up even causing a war where China might release its full military might thanks to her tactless behavior.
What do you think?
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