Philippine Prez: China Like Hitler

President of the Philippines, Benigno S. Aquino III, warned the world on a policy of appeasement towards China during the tense debate over its claims to seas in between the two countries. Comparing Western inaction now to the failure to aid Czechoslovakia in 1938, Aquino said, “If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line? At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it—remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.” Multiple Asian leaders are alarmed by recent assertiveness on the part of China in terms of a military buildup and increased territorial claims.