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Philippines-China WPS Dispute
Topic Started: Jul 15 2012, 02:28 PM (105,212 Views)
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Jul 30 2012, 10:06 PM
Panibagong nakakainit ng dugo!
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Pag-asa island municipal workers want to go out to stop Chinese
Philippine Daily Inquirer
2:03 am | Saturday, July 28th, 2012

MANILA, Philippines—Employees of the municipal government on Pag-asa reported on Friday that Chinese fishermen continued collecting corals from the edge of islands on the fringe of reefs 3 kilometers from Pag-asa. “We counted at least five large fishing boats from the eastern side of the island,” said Ronnie Cojambo, a municipal employee, told the Inquirer by text message. “At least two were new and just arrived.”
Kalayaan Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon said the municipal staff on the island had wanted to go out to stop the Chinese but he had prevailed on them not do anything, as the matter was for the DFA to deal with.

Coral destruction

Bito-onon said he also ordered the Kalayaan sea patrol to refrain from accosting to the Chinese fishermen.
“We will just let the DFA handle this matter,” he said.

A marine conservation expert said on Friday the coral mining by the Chinese off Pag-asa would have a serious impact on important marine ecosystems around the Coral Triangle. Romeo Trono, former head of Conservation International Philippines and the turtle conservation program of the government, urged countries bound by the international agreements to protect the Coral Triangle to help ask China to stop its fishermen from mining corals in the West Philippine Sea.

Rex Robles, a retired Navy officer, said the government should ask the United Nations not for a peacekeeping force but for a maritime patrol to protect the Philippine environment from Chinese destruction. “The corals have been there for years, and now they’re destroying them in an hour or two,” Robles said. “There should be patrols in the whole area there, which should be declared a sanctuary and supervised accordingly,” he said. TJ Burgonio in Manila and Redempto Anda, Inquirer Southern Luzon.

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/45809/pag-asa-island-municipal-workers-want-to-go-out-to-stop-chinese
Commodore Robles, bakit mo naman iaasa sa UN ang pagbabantay sa karagatan natin??? I thought the retired RAM stalwart is a wise man.. with his suggestion I've got no respect for him.. being a retired navy officer and he will say that.. we have a navy sir, all the country should do is provide it with the necessary equipment to better perform its mandated duty... of all people.. all retired and former military officers sounded like chicken (Ramos, Honasan, Trillanes, Biazon, now this Robles)... Hopefully Almonte is an exception..
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The UN cannot just take side while supporting any UN marked patrol boats/ships without a strong and legitimate laws to back them up. This is the reason why the US have to finally step up the implementation of UNCLOS at WPS.
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PH to bid out disputed S.China Sea oil, gas blocks
www.abs-cbnnews.com

MANILA - The Philippines will offer three areas in the South China Sea for oil and gas exploration on Tuesday, two of them in waters also claimed by China.

Nido Petroleum Ltd of Australia, Spanish energy company Repsol, French gas and power firm GDF Suez and Italy's Eni are among 15 firms that have pre-qualified for the bids, although it is not clear if they will participate.
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"All the areas we have offered are well within the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone of the Philippines under the UNCLOS (United Nations Convention of the Law of the Seas)," Jose Layug, an undersecretary in Manila's Department of Energy, told Reuters.

"Thus, the Philippines exercises exclusive sovereign rights and authority to explore and exploit resources within these areas to the exclusion of other countries. There is no doubt and dispute about such rights."

The dispute has become Asia's biggest potential military flashpoint as Beijing's sovereignty claim has particularly set it against Vietnam and the Philippines, with the three countries racing to tap possibly huge oil reserves.

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Is it better to live under Aroyo's false peace and capitulation than Aquino's bold defiance to the Chinese? What we have now is the Phil. reassertion for it's own domain and, the emergence of a new economic and military power in Asia. Things may have to get worse before it gets better but, many great nations had to pass the same test.

During the revolutionary war of the USA, the American army always scattered and ran when the British soldiers charged with fixed bayonets. The Americans lost most of the battles. But after the dreaded winter in Volley Forge, a Hessian officer named Von Stayven (who claimed he was a general and baron, and please check my spelling of his name) defected and sided with George Washington. He was assigned to train his troops in battle formations and fixed bayonet fights. When the American Continental army came out of hiding that spring, again after exchanging fire, the British came out and attacked with fixed bayonets with their usual arrogant confidence. To their surprise the Americans held their ground and fought them in their own game. After a brief encounter, the Brits fled the battle in stunned humiliation. The rest is history.
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US: Palawan may be target of Chinese navy
By Jose Katigbak Star, Washington Bureau (The Philippine Star)
August 11, 2012 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON -- China may target Palawan for a military attack to punish the Philippines for challenging its maritime claims in the South China Sea, Richard Fisher Jr., a US think tank military affairs analyst, said.

He said the presence of the Chinese frigate Dongguan which ran aground last month near disputed Half Moon Shoal off Palawan, and the five or six Chinese ships that sailed to its aid were believed to be part of stepped-up efforts to enforce what Beijing calls its "Nine-dash Line" that outlines almost all of the South China Sea, which it claims as sovereign waters.

Fisher, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, was quoted extensively by Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz on Thursday.

Accompanying Gertz's article was what he said was the first photo of Dongguan taken by a Filipino military photographer during a flight over the disputed Half Moon Shoal that both Beijing and Manila claim as their maritime territory. The shoal sits astride a key strategic waterway about 70 miles from the Philippine island province of Palawan.

Gertz quoted a Philippine official as saying the photo showed "the bully that ran aground."

Fisher said the Dongguan recently was upgraded with YJ-83 anti-ship cruise missiles, which have a range of 155 miles. It also has a new stealthy, infrared-suppressing exhaust stack.

Philippine officials do not know why the Chinese warship sailed so close to Half Moon Shoal and ended up stuck in the sand, Gertz said. But some believe its presence is part of stepped-up efforts to enforce Beijing's "Nine-dash Line."

Another theory is that the Chinese sought to survey the region ahead of an expected Philippines-sponsored, oil-prospecting venture that will begin this year or early next year.

"The fact that several ships were in the vicinity of Half Moon Shoal able to render assistance to the Dongguan is a testament to the overall increased Chinese naval presence in this region, but also a testament to the (People's Liberation Army's) command and control capabilities," Fisher said.

"While the grounding was a major embarrassment for China that provided a perhaps unintended military reinforcement to its diplomatic bullying at (a recent regional) summit, this incident also served to highlight the increasing strategic importance of Palawan," he said.


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US: Palawan may be target of Chinese navy
By Jose Katigbak Star, Washington Bureau (The Philippine Star)
August 11, 2012 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON -- China may target Palawan for a military attack to punish the Philippines for challenging its maritime claims in the South China Sea, Richard Fisher Jr., a US think tank military affairs analyst, said.

He said the presence of the Chinese frigate Dongguan which ran aground last month near disputed Half Moon Shoal off Palawan, and the five or six Chinese ships that sailed to its aid were believed to be part of stepped-up efforts to enforce what Beijing calls its "Nine-dash Line" that outlines almost all of the South China Sea, which it claims as sovereign waters.

Fisher, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, was quoted extensively by Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz on Thursday.

Accompanying Gertz's article was what he said was the first photo of Dongguan taken by a Filipino military photographer during a flight over the disputed Half Moon Shoal that both Beijing and Manila claim as their maritime territory. The shoal sits astride a key strategic waterway about 70 miles from the Philippine island province of Palawan.

Gertz quoted a Philippine official as saying the photo showed "the bully that ran aground."

Fisher said the Dongguan recently was upgraded with YJ-83 anti-ship cruise missiles, which have a range of 155 miles. It also has a new stealthy, infrared-suppressing exhaust stack.

Philippine officials do not know why the Chinese warship sailed so close to Half Moon Shoal and ended up stuck in the sand, Gertz said. But some believe its presence is part of stepped-up efforts to enforce Beijing's "Nine-dash Line."

Another theory is that the Chinese sought to survey the region ahead of an expected Philippines-sponsored, oil-prospecting venture that will begin this year or early next year.

"The fact that several ships were in the vicinity of Half Moon Shoal able to render assistance to the Dongguan is a testament to the overall increased Chinese naval presence in this region, but also a testament to the (People's Liberation Army's) command and control capabilities," Fisher said.

"While the grounding was a major embarrassment for China that provided a perhaps unintended military reinforcement to its diplomatic bullying at (a recent regional) summit, this incident also served to highlight the increasing strategic importance of Palawan," he said.


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For once I want the entire Chinese Navy to be obliterated from this world.

Add the PLAAF and PLANAF as well.

First, they want to strike our territorial claims and now they want to strike our own territory as well.

Well then, that's a cassus belli under the US-PH MDA. That's striking Philippine mainland territory.
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Jul 31 2012, 01:03 PM
What we have now is the Phil. reassertion for it's own domain and, the emergence of a new economic and military power in Asia. Things may have to get worse before it gets better but, many great nations had to pass the same test.

:salute: Well said. :salute:

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Cover page of a chinese naval magazine...

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Di ba magaling ka din sa Photoshop Mc?

Gawa ka din ng Pinoy version. Goyo sinking their aircraft carrier with only its gun. LOL.
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Yup, I can do that pero this is a cover of a real naval magazine which is being circulated and sold (price is RMB8.00)... part of their wicked propaganda
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