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| The Kalayaan, Panatag & other disputed islands; Future conflict zones? | |
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| AZKALS | Mar 31 2012, 07:15 AM Post #1361 |
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China has warn again not to proceed with the joint maritime exercises with Vietnam and Thailand in the disputed areas ... http://www.voanews.com/english/news/China-...-144881075.html |
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| pachador | Mar 31 2012, 01:32 PM Post #1362 |
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china will be doing the afp is big big favor if her navy sinks a filipino warship. this will finally wake up our congress to add more money to the budget |
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| pachador | Mar 31 2012, 01:59 PM Post #1363 |
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the philippine congress has been documented to do things either at the last minute or only when the philippines is threatened with action by international authorities. the 2 recent examples are: 1.) anti-money laundering act was passed only after we were blacklisted 2.) improvement of airports only done after our airport category was downgraded etc etc |
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| AZKALS | Mar 31 2012, 02:30 PM Post #1364 |
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| israeli | Mar 31 2012, 09:43 PM Post #1365 |
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PHL to 'exercise sovereignty,' build pier in disputed Spratlys AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE March 30, 2012 7:38pm The Philippines will "exercise territorial sovereignty" and build a pier in the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, officials said Friday. "What is ours is ours. Pag-asa Island is ours... The Philippines exercises territorial sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea (Philippine-claimed areas of the South China Sea)," the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. The DFA said it would build the pier on the largest of the five Philippine-occupied islands, known as Thitu, but which it calls Pag-asa. <snipped> "The construction of a pier on Pag-asa Island is a clear exercise of Philippine sovereignty." Filipino troops occupy five Spratly islands including Thitu, grouping them as a town called "Kalayaan" or Freedom. <snipped> The Filipino mayor of the Kalayaan group, Eugene Bito-onon, told AFP several government agencies had agreed to develop the pier on 37-hectare (91-acre) Thitu, which hosts about 60 Filipino civilians as well as troops. Most of the residents' food and other needs have to be shipped or flown in. The cost and timetable for the project have not been finalised but Bito-onon said construction of a harbour will allow equipment and materials to be rolled off ships. "Once we have the pier, we can unload equipment for the improvement of the airstrip and the construction of other facilities and even tourists," he said. <snipped> More of the article here. |
| "To secure peace is to prepare for war." - Carl Von Clausewitz | |
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| AZKALS | Apr 1 2012, 10:00 AM Post #1366 |
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I hope they would just build the 'DAMN' thing and stop making all this announcements, otherwise nothing will be accomplish again ... ![]() http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_783558.html |
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| Mckoyzzz | Apr 1 2012, 02:13 PM Post #1367 |
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Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est
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A fairly good read about the Philippines effort to bolster its defenses against China as well as some editorials on the pros and cons... http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/philip...nter-china.html |
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| THE_NEWS_MAN | Apr 1 2012, 11:13 PM Post #1368 |
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No war exercises with Vietnam in Spratlys – PH Navy MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines will not hold war exercises with Vietnam in the disputed Spratly Islands, Navy chief Vice Admiral Alexander Pama said. Last Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei protested the reported planned war exercises. "We want to clarify that the Vietnamese navy and our Navy have not reached an agreement to hold war games. What we signed only is the Standing Operating Procedure in line with the Memorandum of Understanding that we signed last October," said Pama. He was in Hanoi on March 12 and 13. He said there was no agreement on war exercises with his Vietnamese counterpart Admiral Nguyen Van Hien. He said the meeting was only in connection with a Standing Operating Procedure on Personnel Interaction in the vicinity of Southeast Cay and Southwest Cay between Vietnamese and Philippine troops. The SOP calls for confidence-building measures, like fun games and sharing of information by both navies. He said the “fun games” refer to basketball, soccer and volleyball. The SOP will also help in the conduct of search and rescue operations for Vietnamese and Filipino fishermen in distress. "What we signed is the Standing Operating Procedure on confidence building measures, exchange of information (In Spratlys) and humanitarian assistance and rescue operations," he said. Source |
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| AZKALS | Apr 2 2012, 08:00 PM Post #1369 |
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Chinas's 'TOUGH' Talk Gives Boost to Washington ... http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/20...t-to-washington |
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| icefrog | Apr 2 2012, 08:05 PM Post #1370 |
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Everything they do is backfiring on them. PH would not even be jump-starting the AFP modernization if weren't for them. So, thank you China!! |
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