The @Chinaembmanila has now spent four posts attacking me as Mr. Jay Tarriela. When the facts are on your side, you do not write essays against the person stating them — you correct the record. Evidently, China cannot, so it attacks the messenger instead.

On the bridges, vaccines, and aid: no one denies they were given, and Filipinos are not ungrateful. But development assistance is not a receipt that entitles the giver to violate …