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Philippines-China WPS Dispute
Topic Started: Jul 15 2012, 02:28 PM (105,178 Views)
Hong Nam
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An Oil and Gas Boom for Southeast Asia?
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PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 24, 2013


11 Billion barrels = proven and probable OIL reserves
190 Trillion cubic feet = proven and probable GAS reserves


Controlling the Spratlys isn't about expanding a landmass - the islands are tiny. It's about controlling the surrounding waters and the area's large and untapped oil and gas bounty.

As the world's largest energy consumer, China naturally stands to gain the most from the resolution of the squabbling. But that seems unlikely to hapen soon.

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China's Xi sidesteps South East Asia pressure over South China Sea disputes
By Kanupriya Kapoor
JAKARTA
Thu Oct 3, 2013 9:42am BST


(Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping showed no sign of bending to Southeast Asian pressure to resolve increasingly irascible territorial disputes over the South China Sea on Thursday, simply repeating calls for dialogue.

Xi, in the first address by a foreign leader to Indonesian MPs, made no reference to regional demands, echoed in Washington, that Beijing deal with the rival claims through multilateral talks rather than with individual negotiations.

"As for the disagreements and disputes between China and certain Southeast Asian nations on territorial sovereignty and maritime rights, both sides must always uphold the use of peaceful methods ...to maintain the broad picture of bilateral relations and regional stability," he told MPs on the second and last day of his visit to Southeast Asia's largest country.

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Palace defends allies from China's accusations of intervening in sea row
By: Janice Cave, Philippine News Agency
October 8, 2013 5:30 AM


MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government defended its allies Monday from accusations made by China that they are intervening in the West Philippine Sea dispute.

At a press briefing, Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the United States, Australia and Japan have interests in the disputed areas to protect freedom of navigation.

“A big percentage of world’s trade passes through our waters, the waters that is a subject of dispute right now. Do they have an interest? Yes they have an interest because of freedom of navigation,” Lacierda said.

China on Monday asked the three nations to refrain from dipping their hands into the disputes in the East China Sea and South China Sea.

The US, Australia and Japan issued a joint statement opposing the "coercive or unilateral actions" in maritime disputes during a trilateral strategic dialogue at the Asia Pacific Economic Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

China and Japan are in a long-standing row over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. China is also in a territorial dispute with Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei over the Spratly Islands.



http://www.interaksyon.com/article/72272/palace-defends-allies-from-chinas-accusations-of-intervening-in-sea-row
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The Philippines and the West Philippine Sea
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Contrary to the thinking in certain quarters, the Philippines does not lay claim to the entire South China Sea (SCS), but rather to that smaller area of the SCS off the country’s western seaboard that is well within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf and is known as the West Philippine Sea (WPS). The Philippine government spelled out this difference when President Benigno Aquino Jr. issued Administrative Order 29 on September 5, 2012, which renamed the maritime areas to the country’s west. The Philippines is an archipelagic, maritime state, which makes the WPS a matter of serious national importance given its strategic location, security implications and resources.

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The WPS is critical for the Philippines for strategic, security and economic reasons, not to mention national patrimony and territorial integrity. The WPS is the source of most of the country’s indigenous oil and gas, with the potential to meet the country’s fuel demand in the next 20 years, while also hosting a wide array of seabed minerals. While other SCS claimants like China, for instance, can boast onshore and offshore producing basins outside the SCS, the Philippines’ present oil and gas production are clustered around offshore northwest Palawan and the Recto (Reed) Bank in the WPS. Seismic studies suggest that these two areas possess the greatest potential for a country long dependent on oil imports. As the Philippines continues to develop its offshore hydrocarbons exploration and development capabilities, while attracting local and foreign investors in harnessing these resources, the WPS promises to figure in the country’s quest for future energy security and self-sufficiency.

source: thediplomat.com
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Confucius vs. Confucius at ASEAN-China summit
By Lynda Jumilla | ANC

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei – It was Confucius Aquino versus Confucius Li at the ASEAN-China summit, as President Aquino had a mild exchange with Chinese Premier Li Kequiang over territorial disputes in the “sea of many names.”

The exchange took place in yesterday’s 16th ASEAN-China summit, where Li professed his government’s support for the formulation of a binding Code of Conduct (COC) on overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The COC has been on the table of the ASEAN-China discussions since 2002, but has not taken off due largely to China’s objections.

In response to Li, President Aquino quoted Chinese philosopher Confucius who said: “The superior man is humble in his speech but superb in his actions.” This was a reiteration of his call earlier in the day for ASEAN to match its words with actions on the South China Sea issue.

According to officials present at the summit, Li rounded off the discussions also with quote from Confucius.

Despite the exchange, the President is convinced the dialog with china – or at least with its Premier – on the South China Sea dispute has taken a positive turn. He said there was no belligerent tone or hardline position conveyed by either side. He also said he had a short exchange of pleasantries with Li while waiting for the start of the summit.

The president said this was better than ignoring or avoiding each other.

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The Philippines and the West Philippine Sea
By Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
October 08, 2013


Manila claims only part of the South China Sea, but the area it does claim is a core national interest.

Contrary to the thinking in certain quarters, the Philippines does not lay claim to the entire South China Sea (SCS), but rather to that smaller area of the SCS off the country’s western seaboard that is well within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf and is known as the West Philippine Sea (WPS). The Philippines is an archipelagic, maritime state, which makes the WPS a matter of serious national importance given its strategic location, security implications and resources.

The WPS is critical for the Philippines for strategic, security and economic reasons, not to mention national patrimony and territorial integrity. The WPS is the source of most of the country’s indigenous oil and gas, with the potential to meet the country’s fuel demand in the next 20 years, while also hosting a wide array of seabed minerals.

The WPS is also home to 20% of the country’s fisheries catch. Its rich coral formations serve as spawning grounds that replenish depleted stocks in waters adjacent to the Philippines. It is also a transit area for migratory species. The development of the local commercial fishing industry will, therefore, hinge on a sustainably managed use of these living marine resources in the WPS, which is under threat from poaching and use of illegal and destructive fishing practices.

The WPS is also important from a national security standpoint. In fact, during World War II, Japanese invaders used an island in the Spratlys to stage attacks against Philippine positions.

The WPS also lies along major Philippine trading channels, and control of these waters by an unfriendly state could cripple the country’s improving economy. To this concern add the close proximity of many foreign-occupied features.


The Philippines had been seeking to align its position in the WPS with international law. In 2009, the country passed its baselines law, wherein the Kalayaan Island Group and Bajo de Masinloc were placed under a “regime of islands” consistent with UNCLOS, signaling that Manila has no interest in drawing EEZs and ECSs for its WPS features, which would excessively expand the country’s maritime entitlements and cause it to overlap with the maritime claims of other SCS disputants. The Philippines is also advocating a rules-based approach that calls for the delineation of areas under dispute from those that are undisputed, to facilitate talks on functional cooperation or joint development in disputed areas. This position had been communicated at regional meetings and summits on the SCS issue. The recent filing of a legal challenge against China’s claims in the WPS can also be understood as resorting to international law to encourage a rival claimant to clarify the extent, nature and bases of its claims.


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Aquino on Panatag blocks: No proof vs China
Updated 10/10/2013 9:40 PM

MANILA, Philippines – Contradicting defense officials, President Benigno Aquino III said he remains unconvinced that China installed concrete blocks in the disputed Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal.

In an interview with reporters, Aquino on Wednesday evening, October 9, said a closer inspection showed barnacles and moss covering the concrete blocks.

He said the barnacles show the blocks weren't dropped or "placed there recently.” “Ngayon, 'yung who placed it, lalo lang gumulo ang usapan,” he said on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Brunei. (Now, the question of who placed it, complicates the issue further.)

“We don’t accuse until we have proof,” Aquino added, after a journalist asked him why the Philippines hasn't filed a formal protest against China over this.

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AFP probers say US, not China, put concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc
By Ellen Tordesillas, VERA Files
Posted at 10/25/2013 12:00 AM

The concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc, which Philippine defense and military officials last month accused China of putting there, may have actually been placed by the United States Navy decades ago, military sources said.

A military investigation found that the concrete slabs were covered by algae, an indication that they had been in the area for many years. The probe also found that the blocks had been used by the U.S. Navy as “sinkers” to preserve the wreckage of old ships they used for target practice. . . .

VERA Files sought a statement from the U.S. Embassy but was referred to Gazmin’s office “for any clarification of his remarks.” VERA Files also asked for a statement from Gazmin's office but did not get any response.

Military sources also said they interviewed a number of fishermen who had seen the concrete blocks way back in the late 1980s and even used them as step boards during high tide.

President Aquino, speaking at the annual presidential forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines, shared the information that the concrete blocks “are very, very old concrete blocks. Some of them have barnacles attach to them. They are not a new phenomenon.”

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I thought the PN and/or PCG has been monitoring the shoal for years now and no one told nor inform the AFP officials or the government about those ancient blocks?
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Oct 25 2013, 02:53 AM
I thought the PN and/or PCG has been monitoring the shoal for years now and no one told nor inform the AFP officials or the government about those ancient blocks?
An intelligence failure. All the more reason why one must investigate all angles before reacting. Imagine what a bigger failure it would have been had they acted as some members here had proposed - Bombing them using the S211's.

That would have been a huge blunder.


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