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First of all, let me greet everybody a very happy Independence Day! … if indeed that is the right greeting for the celebration today.

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China's continued territorial assertions (it is now about to implement a new air defense identification zone over the South China Sea is not the real problem. The real problem is that it is being made to believe it can get away with it.

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How can anyone complain, criticize, point fingers, sulk or bicker at this point in time? Our countrymen need us.

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One newspaper had this banner headline last Saturday, October 19: "PH buying SK fighter jets."

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The New York stock market continued its plunge, Fitch has threatened a possible rating downgrade, but the US debt default time bomb continues to tick away with no clear compromise in sight as we write this column.

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There were two interesting stories in the newspapers that caught my attention this week and will certainly have worldwide implications.

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I’ve heard people say that the only time we do anything about something is when it gets personal.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133943 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804831 [AuthorName] => Cito Beltran [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 828416 [Title] => Philippines may not get help from neighbors on sea row [Summary] =>

Following the failure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to issue a common statement regarding China's activities in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), foreign and Filipino experts believe that the Philippines may not be able to get the help it expects from its neighbors to resolve the dispute.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-16 12:27:54 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1223948 [AuthorName] => Cheryl M. Arcibal [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 807568 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Sub(tle) message from US to China [Summary] =>

The Virginia-class fast attack nuclear submarine USS North Carolina (SSN-777), one of the deadliest and most modern in the arsenal of the US Navy, has suddenly surfaced unannounced at the old US naval base in Subic.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730027 [Title] => Unsteady [Summary] =>

Economists call this process “wealth destruction.” That is an apt term to describe what happened this week: trillions of dollars of created wealth simply evaporated as stock markets collapsed across the globe.

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First of all, let me greet everybody a very happy Independence Day! … if indeed that is the right greeting for the celebration today.

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China's continued territorial assertions (it is now about to implement a new air defense identification zone over the South China Sea is not the real problem. The real problem is that it is being made to believe it can get away with it.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1257968 [Title] => Paraiso [Summary] =>

How can anyone complain, criticize, point fingers, sulk or bicker at this point in time? Our countrymen need us.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1247706 [Title] => Throwing the gauntlet [Summary] =>

One newspaper had this banner headline last Saturday, October 19: "PH buying SK fighter jets."

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1246009 [Title] => US brinkmanship: Rich Americans vs middle class [Summary] =>

The New York stock market continued its plunge, Fitch has threatened a possible rating downgrade, but the US debt default time bomb continues to tick away with no clear compromise in sight as we write this column.

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There were two interesting stories in the newspapers that caught my attention this week and will certainly have worldwide implications.

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I’ve heard people say that the only time we do anything about something is when it gets personal.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133943 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804831 [AuthorName] => Cito Beltran [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 828416 [Title] => Philippines may not get help from neighbors on sea row [Summary] =>

Following the failure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to issue a common statement regarding China's activities in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), foreign and Filipino experts believe that the Philippines may not be able to get the help it expects from its neighbors to resolve the dispute.

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The Virginia-class fast attack nuclear submarine USS North Carolina (SSN-777), one of the deadliest and most modern in the arsenal of the US Navy, has suddenly surfaced unannounced at the old US naval base in Subic.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730027 [Title] => Unsteady [Summary] =>

Economists call this process “wealth destruction.” That is an apt term to describe what happened this week: trillions of dollars of created wealth simply evaporated as stock markets collapsed across the globe.

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