Coast Guard admits killing Taiwanese fisherman, claims self-defense

[Monseratto]

WTH?!? Gusto ba nila nakaluhod pagka-sorry???

Taiwan rejects Philippines' apology as 'insincere' - Taiwan TV
By: InterAksyon.com
May 15, 2013 9:43 AM

MANILA – (UPDATE, 10:07 a.m.) Taiwan on Wednesday rejected the Philippines' official apology for the killing of the 65-year-old fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard last week saying it was "not enough, lack of sincerity, volatile," according to a Taiwan television report.

A rough translation of the report in Chinese said that Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou met with his National Security Council at 7 a.m. today to discuss the apology and decided that the Philippines’ “reckless, perfunctory authorization is not enough.”

“To express our strong dissatisfaction,” Taiwan has stopped issuing visas to Filipino workers and recalled its de facto ambassador to the Philippines and sent Antonio Basilio, Philippine head of the Manila Economic Cooperation Office in Taipei, back to the home office.

Taiwan President Ma also warned that if the Philippine government fails to meet its four requirements by 6 p.m. today, Taiwan will enforce “eight inter-ministerial sanctions.”

The Philippines sent Basilio to Taiwan Tuesday evening to deliver the official letter of apology after the Philippine Coast Guard shot dead Hung Shih-Cheng last week, sparking tensions that saw Taipei threaten a naval exercise near Philippine waters.

Since Tuesday morning, Taiwan has stopped the issuance of visas to Filipinos seeking to work there.

Around 80,000 overseas Filipino workers live and work in Taiwan, mostly as factory workers or caregivers. Filipinos are the third-largest group of foreign workers in Taiwan after the Indonesians and the Vietnamese..

[Boy Bastos]

Kudos sa PCG for protecting our territory using Jurassic weapons and tactics.

Napahiya lang ang Taiwan kaya ganyan. Ibang usapan na kapag military ships na pinadala nila. Declaration of war na yun kasi PH territory na yung area. Kaya sobrang OA lang ang acting nila.

[yebo]

mali din philippine government e, apologize agad. dapat yan imbes na nag-apologise e sinagot ang taiwan na kahit wala tayong armas we are willing to defend our territory with whatever little arms we have. and then when taiwan threatened to stop hiring filipinos ang sagot dapat e freeze naman ng philippines to allowing ofws to going to taiwan. puro walang bayag nasa government, nakakainis!

[crazy_boy]

mali din philippine government e, apologize agad. dapat yan imbes na nag-apologise e sinagot ang taiwan na kahit wala tayong armas we are willing to defend our territory with whatever little arms we have. and then when taiwan threatened to stop hiring filipinos ang sagot dapat e freeze naman ng philippines to allowing ofws to going to taiwan. puro walang bayag nasa government, nakakainis!

Hehe tutulungan naman tayo ni uncle sam. Showcase tayo for independence. Yung mga taiwanese, ganyan talaga yung mga yan. Mayayabang. Hanapin niyo sa youtube, sa congress session yata yun, madalas magsapakan yung mga yan kahit babae hehe

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[yebo]

f*ck uncle sam, uncle sam will always look after its own interest. asa ka pa.

we should learn to rely on our own. kung kulang e di dapat pagtuunan ng pansin para maging sapat!

[crazy_boy]

f*ck uncle sam, uncle sam will always look after its own interest. asa ka pa.

we should learn to rely on our own. kung kulang e di dapat pagtuunan ng pansin para maging sapat!

E napunta kasi sa mga "projects" yung budget. Wala nga tayong budget for military defense e.

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[Monseratto]

Kasalanan kasi ng gobyerno. Instead of making it easy to set up factories to create jobs, they "forced" people to look for work elsewhere. Open tayo for blackmail sa host country. Singapore and Saudi...to name a few...Sana matamaan ng lindol or bagyo ang Taiwan.

Of course we sympathize with the family and friends of that Taiwanese fisherman who was killed in a faceoff near Batanes with a vessel jointly operated by the Philippine Coast Guard and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

And of course the Taiwanese have every right to protest their countryman’s death, and demand as well an apology from P-Noy, if not the Philippine government.

But that doesn’t mean the apology should be forthcoming. P-Noy was right to refuse to comment on the specifics of the case, saying he prefers to “proceed on a calm basis.” The Taiwanese have to be reminded that the confrontation took place after the PCG-BFAR ship fired warning shots at two boats spotted on the Balintang Channel (which is Philippine territory), and then fired directly when one of the boats tried to ram the Philippine vessel.

So, to put it mildly, the fisherman was not exactly an innocent party in the incident. Or at least he was part of the other party that was complicit in the conflict. According to official Coast Guard reports, their action was purely in “self-defense.” And we must all be grateful that the incident did not escalate into a broader, deadlier level.
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Contrast P-Noy’s rather unruffled demeanor, which the Taiwanese presidential spokesperson described as “flippant,” with Taiwan’s choleric reactions, ranging from President Ma Ying-jeou’s demand for a formal apology “within 72 hours,” to Taiwanese threats to freeze all applications for work permits of overseas Filipino workers, to an angry protest (replete with burning the Philippine flag) in front of the offices of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei.

I understand that silent diplomatic actions are being taken to prevent the imbroglio from boiling over into a major conflict. As I write this, Malacañang has reportedly said it would no longer comment on the incident pending completion of an investigation.

But let me just say that “receiving countries” should stop using the “OFW card” in the event of a disagreement with the Philippines. In this case, Taiwan authorities have brazenly threatened to stop the entry, if not deport outright, Filipino workers in their many factories. This, even if Taiwanese employers and officials keep on saying that they “value” the contributions made by Filipino workers, who are mostly trained and knowledgeable employees in their factories that churn out digital devices and computers.
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Our overseas workers are not beggars or welfare cases. They contribute to the wealth of the nations where they are based, even as they earn precious dollars to send home to their families.

Even domestic workers help their host countries. They free up the energies and time of their employers who would otherwise have to devote a big chunk of their work days to caring for their children and looking after the domestic front. Domestic workers are not charity cases. They are allies in the effort to give their host families a better quality of life, even if, in some cases, these same workers (most of them women) must leave their own children behind to be looked after by relatives and hired hands.

To Taiwan and other governments playing host to OFWs: Stop using them as pawns in bigger disputes with our government. The time may come that they will no longer need to search for employment outside our borders, and where will that leave all of you?

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[Monseratto]

IN PROTEST OF TAIWAN'S DISREGARD FOR OUR OFWs

We urge our kababayans to BOYCOTT Taiwan Made Products, Companies and Services. DO NOT BUY TAIWAN AND CHINESE products.

A Peso spent on these products will finance a hostile country's economy and finance their government to further aggressive and occupational policies.

HTC, ACER, ASUS, MSI, BenQ, Trend Micro, EVA Air, Evergreen Cargo, to name a few

[ClaNker]

Next time na mangisda uli yang mga yan sa territory natin eh dapat wala ng itira, ratrating lahat.

[JohnM]