MANILA, Philippines — It would have been better if President Rodrigo Duterte had threatened China not to sell the Philippines “more expensive yet less than effective” COVID-19 vaccines than warn the United States of a defense pact termination over vaccines.
This was according to Senator Francis Pangilinan, who was reacting to the President’s recent pronouncement that he would continue with the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) if the United States failed to provide the Philippines with its COVID-19 vaccines.
“Perhaps our citizens would be better off if he instead threatened China not to sell us more expensive yet less than effective or inferior vaccines,” Pangilin…
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