‘Virus has increased Filipinos’ distrust of China’

In conjunction with the letter (“Read the room: Filipinos do not trust China,” 8/17/20), allow us to also point out the undeniable fact that compared to the Chinese Embassy in this country, the United States Embassy is always swamped with Filipino applicants desiring to migrate to that country.

If Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana thinks there’s any competition between the two in terms of Filipinos’ preference, he must be just as blind or delusional as his boss. This “made-in-China” COVID-19 has in fact intensified our people’s distrust of China into unspeakable disgust.

To us ordinary citizens, this scenario only means that our people’s preference obviously stands at 99 percent for America, while only 1 percent for China — i.e., only President Duterte, who seems to love China more than the Philippines, whose territories China has been relentlessly grabbing without even a “whiff of protest” from him.

Indeed, if he genuinely cares and speaks for the Filipino people, why is he ignoring the public’s preference? Why is he always cursing and cussing at America? Because long ago he was denied a US visa to visit his inamorata? Susmaryosep!

Janno M. Montecristo
jama.monte@yahoo.com.ph