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Philippines-China WPS Dispute
Topic Started: Jul 15 2012, 02:28 PM (105,179 Views)
Hong Nam
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EDITORIAL
Chinese Foot-Dragging
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
August 11, 2013


If there is ever going to be an end to tensions over the South China Sea, one of the world's most strategically important waterways, countries in the region need to find a way to work out their volatile maritime disputes. China, more than any other nation, has fanned those hostilities with sweeping sovereignty claims and confrontations over disputed islands and even specks of rock.

Last week, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China would be happy to discuss a code of conduct to help nations peacefully address competing claims, while suggesting that China was in no hurry to have this happen. In other words, to let the conflicts fester.

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations will discuss this topic next month. The overlapping claims are complicated, but China's foot-dragging allows it to play for time and sow divisions among the smaller countries. The South China Sea has been contested for centuries. And while Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia bear some responsibility for ratcheting up frictions, China's assertive use of its navy and commercial vessels (on top of its economic power) has worried many of its smaller neighbors.

The danger is that any miscalculation could spark a conflict. A confrontational approach is unwise for a country that prizes stability and development and needs to focus on its serious domestic problems, including an increasingly troubled economy. Instead of feeding a resurgent nationalism with mischief-making, Beijing should be working with its neighbors to ease competing claims and to pursue joint development of natural resources.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/opinion/chinese-foot-dragging.html?_r=0


"Instead of feeding a resurgent nationalism with mischief-making, Beijing should be working with its neighbors to ease competing claims and to pursue joint development of natural resources."

Edited by Hong Nam, Aug 12 2013, 01:53 PM.

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its best to continue letting this traitors talk and write their submissive articles for 2 reasons:
1.) we have a democracy
2.) when the war starts, we will have a mountain of evidence to arrest these traitors.
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Hong Nam
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pachador
Aug 12 2013, 01:59 PM
its best to continue letting this traitors talk and write their submissive articles for 2 reasons:
1.) we have a democracy
2.) when the war starts, we will have a mountain of evidence to arrest these traitors.
Traitors?

It's an article by the New York Times. Can't charge a foreigner for treason. Besides, the author obviously lays almost all the blame on China for starting the trouble. Hence the term "mischief making."

As for the joint exploration - that is another matter... It's an american (foreign) perspective and most of them would rather have a peaceful resolution over a shooting conflict. That should be expected as their national interests' are naturally different than yours.

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Hong Nam
Aug 12 2013, 02:20 PM
pachador
Aug 12 2013, 01:59 PM
its best to continue letting this traitors talk and write their submissive articles for 2 reasons:
1.) we have a democracy
2.) when the war starts, we will have a mountain of evidence to arrest these traitors.
Traitors?

It's an article by the New York Times. Can't charge a foreigner for treason. Besides, the author obviously lays almost all the blame on China for starting the trouble. Hence the term "mischief making."

As for the joint exploration - that is another matter... It's an american (foreign) perspective and most of them would rather have a peaceful resolution over a shooting conflict. That should be expected as their national interests' are naturally different than yours.
hello Hong

i think your sleepy =) i was referring to the inquirer article by mon on which you commented.

Edited by pachador, Aug 13 2013, 12:47 AM.
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^^ Apologies.. :headbang:

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PHL lags in infra dev't over disputed West Philippine Sea
MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB
GMA News
August 27, 2013


"All claimants, except the Philippines, has engaged in infrastructure development in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea)," Professor Rommel Banlaoi, head of think tank Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research's Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies,
So far, Vietnam has built the most number of structures in the disputed waters at 21, followed by the Philippines with nine, China with seven, Malaysia with five, and Taiwan with one.

In terms of quality, however, the buildings erected by the Philippines in the islands within its territorial waters have now "deteriorated" and can best be described as "modest" compared with what other claimant-nations have built in the disputed area, Banlaoi noted.

"From the latest photographic evidence, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam have invested their resources to erect solid and more stable structures in their occupied areas. The Philippine structures in its nine-occupied territories remain modest and in the dismal stage of rapid deterioration," he noted.

"China's occupied areas are all reefs but with solid and... cemented structures," Banlaoi said.

In contrast to the sprawling runways and three-story buildings of other countries, the Philippine version is a dirt runway with grass, decrepit maritime bases, and rusty naval vessels. In Pag-asa island, the runway was overgrown with grass that goats were grazing right on the runway. Because of the lack of development, Banlaoi said at the least the Philippines gained the reputation as being the "most environmentally friendly in the South China Sea."


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Philippines given until March next year for submissions against China's nine-dash line claim
Veronica C. Uy
InterAksyon.com
August 28, 2013 2:59 PM


The Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague has given the Philippine government until March 30, 2014 to make all its submissions on the case it brought against China for the latter’s nine-dash-line claim over vast waters in the South China Sea, it was learned Wednesday.

In its first procedural order dated August 27, 2013, the tribunal also instructed the Philippines “to fully address all issues, including matters relating to the jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal, the admissibility of the Philippines’ claim, as well as the merits of the dispute.”

The order set the initial timetable for the arbitration and adopted its own Rules of Procedure.

"The Arbitral Tribunal will determine the further course of the proceedings, including the need for and scheduling of any other written submissions and hearings, at an appropriate later stage, after seeking the views of the Parties," it said.

"In the first Procedural Order, the Arbitral Tribunal formally adopts the Rules of Procedure and fixes 30 March 2014 as the date on which the Philippines should submit its Memorial," the order said.


The Rules of Procedure

The Rules of Procedure, which supplement those contained in Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), set out the procedures on communications, language, publicity, organization of hearings, consideration of objections to the body’s jurisdiction, requests for provisional measures, and the appointment of experts to assist the Arbitral Tribunal.

The Rules of Procedure that the Permanent Court of Arbitration will serve as the registry in the proceedings.



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Sounds like it'll be a loooong legal process... can't blame the Tribunal as this case is very sensitive...
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Chinese presence in Philippine-claimed territories continues
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"There is still presence of Chinese maritime surveillance vessels and fisheries law enforcement vessels in the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal and also in Ayungin Shoal (Second Thomas Shoal), and in other areas," Gen. Emmanuel Bautista said in a foreign correspondents press forum.

"There are...Chinese maritime surveillance and even PLA [People's Liberation Army] Navy vessels in the contested areas. There is also presence of Vietnamese (fishermen) in some of the contested areas," he added.

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A classified Philippine government document seen recently by Kyodo News noted China's increased presence and aggressive behavior in the South China Sea, recording 24 incidents during the period 2010-2012, compared to only seven for 1995-2009.

It also bared China's patrols in the disputed areas and continuing fishing activities all being done "under the watchful eyes of Chinese government vessels."

Bautista said Philippine troops assigned in the Philippine-occupied features just monitor the presence of the foreign vessels and "avoid confrontation."

"We have lodged protests on the presence of these vessels, and precisely that is why we have taken this to the arbitral tribunal for a resolution. That is the response of the government -- to bring it to the appropriate international body to resolve this issue in a peaceful manner abiding by the rule of law," he said.

Bautista said the Philippine military hopes to start fully focusing on protecting the country's territory within the next three years once it has concluded its internal security operations, which deal with a decades-old communist threat, terrorism and other domestic threats.

Part of the strategy, aside from modernizing equipment for aerial and maritime defense, is to welcome U.S. troops for an increased rotational presence in the Philippines as well as their equipment in consonance with the U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific region, he said.
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UPCOMING EVENT: Dev-at-Work Forum on "Territorial Disputes in the West Philippine Sea" with former Congressman Roilo Golez

Venue: First Philippine Holdings Caseroom, Ground Floor, AIM Makati Campus, Makati City

Time: 5pm-6:30pm

For further inquiries, please contact:
Gio Candelaria
Center for Development Management
Tel.: +632 892-4011 to 25 loc. 1829
Fax: +632 867-2529
Email: GCandelaria@aim.edu

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