After losing Scarborough Shoal, President Aquino tore up the diplomatic rule book and compared China to Nazi Germany. “At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’?” Aquino asked in a New York Times interview. “Well, the world has to say it—remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II.”13 He repeated the comparison during a visit to Japan: “Unfortunately, up to the annexation of the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia . . . nobody said stop. If somebody said stop to Hitler at that point in time, or to Germany at that time, would we have avoided World
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