Interesting to see Dalai Lama/ his representation at Indian govt events on Buddha Purnima. After Wuhan summit, it was something that was downplayed. It has been reversed now.
“Our relationship with theUSis not something that we can be cavalier about.”“It is a very important one.It has stood us in good stead for over a hundred years,&that will never disappear from thePhilippine psyche,the idea&the memory of what theUSdid for us and fought with us in the last war,”
5/10 Derek Grossman /“It shouldnot be hard to pointout toChina that our fishing boats are not a military threat to them,so why should they deploy warships there?But we have to respond.If it happens again,we can send theNavy or evenCoastGuard,so there's a military presence…a presence of the state
“"The next item on the agenda is the Daru Island area off Papua New Guinea which is going to have a Chinese presence and before too long a pro-China party will win the national elections in Papua New Guinea," he said.”