No vaccine no VFA

• No vaccine, no VFA

  31 December 2020

  COVID-19 vaccines, Crosscurrents, Duterte, geopolitical leverage, International Law, Justice Carpio, No vaccine no VFA, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Section 88 Government Auditing Code, U.S.-Philippines relations, vaccine procurement, VFA, Visiting Forces Agreement, West Philippine Sea

  Justice Carpio criticizes the President’s “no vaccine, no VFA” ultimatum linking U.S. vaccine delivery to the Visiting Forces Agreement, explaining how advance payment mechanisms and misreading of procurement law undermine access to Western COVID-19 vaccines and risk geopolitical leverage.

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