Despite warmer relations
and robust economic interactions between the Philippines and China in the
current administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, problems in the West Philippine
Sea will not be lacking.
In an interview with
former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile in CNN Philippines, when asked how
can we enforce our victory over the Asia giant that is China in an
international tribunal.
Enrile said, "You want
to match China? Develop your nuclear weapons like North Korea," Enrile
told CNN Philippines.
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| Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (photo credit to owner) |
Enrile was then the
Defense Secretary of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, and he said the Bataan
Nuclear Power Plant built during the Marcos administration had an accompanying
plan to develop nuclear weapons as well.
"Plinano namin 'yun para magkaroon tayo ng nuclear
weapon para hindi tayo inaapi nang maski sino, kaya nating manindigan.
Eh manindigan tayo ngayon, ano gagamitin natin? Kwitis?" Enrile said.
[Translation: We planned that so that we can have a
nuclear weapon so that we are not bullied by anyone and we can stand up for
ourselves. But if we stand up now, what would we use? Firecrackers?]
Enrile said, if the
country has the money to develop nuclear weapons, no one would have been able
to stop it.
"If Iran, Pakistan,
Israel, North Korea and even Cuba, before, could do it, if we went through it,
I don't think they could have stopped us," he said.
As of presstime, as China continues its advance in the
South China Sea and refuses to recognize the 2016 international tribunal
award, Enrile said the country can negotiate with the East Asian giant.
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