SUPREME COURT Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has been in the news lately because of his commencement address at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) Graduate School of Law a couple of weeks ago. Rightly so. His discussion of the issues involved in our West Philippine Sea (WPS) dispute with China (actually, both Chinas — the mainland and Taiwan) is the clearest I have come across so far. He obviously has had a hand in the shaping of the government’s legal strategy to be pursued in its case to be brought before the UN arbitral tribunal.

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