China taking Philippine Islands

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first move ng ito

Robredo open to joint exploration in WPS if China recognizes Philippines’ arbitral win │ GMA News Online

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imee nailed this...


Imee eyes probe into fish supply ‘shortage’ | Butch Fernandez

[dr. d]

imee nailed this...


Imee eyes probe into fish supply ‘shortage’ | Butch Fernandez

i agree.
time and again,
interested parties would rather import and make a killing,
instead of buying from the local sources and support local industry. it would appear, there's not much money to be made for oneself, from such a move.

i almost choked on my food, while i was listening over the radio to a government authority who was defending the fish importation. from the person's tone, i suspect even he wasn't buying it.

[Ry_Tower]

i agree.
time and again,
interested parties would rather import and make a killing,
instead of buying from the local sources and support local industry. it would appear, there's not much money to be made for oneself, from such a move.

i almost choked on my food, while i was listening over the radio to a government authority who was defending the fish importation. from the person's tone, i suspect even he wasn't buying it.

Importation, it's the middleman that will reap the benefits indeed. Tubong laway lang yan. Of course you need the connections to be given the permit.

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This is so obobs.
BBM-Sara UniTeam to tap Badjaos as 'Bantay Dagat' in fight against illegal fishing | BusinessMirror

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EU finally doing "something" ...
EU launches WTO action against China over Lithuania restrictions | The Associated Press

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obvious bribe lol


China donates P1 billion in equipment to Philippine military │ GMA News Online

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weh...


I met Chinese ambassador to discuss WPS, not Eleksyon 222 –Pacquiao │ GMA News Online

[Flipo]

China, Marcos, and Robredo (1) | Inquirer Opinion

China, Marcos, and Robredo (1)
By: Joel Ruiz Butuyan - *inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:06 AM January 31, 2022

We’ve had three foreign countries that invaded and occupied our archipelago in the past, namely Spain, the United States, and Japan. Seventy-six years after Japan was driven away from our shores, we face a new invader—China.

While the three earlier invaders occupied our islands, it’s true that China has not done the same. But China’s sin is not any less. China is dismembering a huge chunk of our territory and making it part of its own. This was not done by the past three colonizers because they didn’t annex our islands or waters as part of their country. What China is doing to a big part of our dominion is no different from what it did to Tibet and what it wants to do to Taiwan. It is no different from what Russia is preparing to do in Ukraine.

It’s true that China has not subjugated our people, like what the three earlier invaders did. But China’s sin is not any less. China is driving away our fishermen and military personnel from the territory it is dismembering from our domain. It is preventing our government from exploring natural resources in the area.

It’s true that China has not occupied any of our archipelagic islands, but it is dismembering a humongous 500,000 square kilometers (sq.m.) of our maritime waters. The area being carved out of our country and being made part of China, is almost double the total land area of all our islands (298,000 sq.m.) that were occupied by earlier invaders. It’s an area that holds untold riches. It’s adjacent, and even parts of it belong to the center of marine biodiversity in the world, where the variety of marine species is at its highest on earth. The area has rich fishing grounds, and it potentially contains oil, gas, and precious minerals that could be our country’s lotto ticket to finally become an extremely wealthy country.

It’s also true that the maritime area which China seeks to dismember from our dominion is part of our exclusive economic zone (EEZ). In the language of lawyers, our EEZ is not a formal part of Philippine territory. Under international law, however, it is an area where we enjoy “sovereign rights.� It’s an area where we possess exclusive rights to fish, to exploit all marine resources, and to explore and develop all natural resources including oil, gas, and precious minerals found in the seabed. All these rights are the hallmarks of “ownership.� For all the rights that matter, it is ownership by another name. All these ownership rights are being taken away from us by China.

Standing alone, our country has no chance against China in a military conflict. What we have, by way of advantages, are three aces against China: 1) the international arbitration award that affirmed our sovereign rights in our EEZ; 2) our mutual defense treaty with the US, which obligates the US to come to our aid in case of foreign invasion, and; 3) our natural allies against China consisting of countries which will also stand to suffer either a similar dismemberment of territory or constriction on international commerce.

It’s in our country’s best interest to maintain and assert all these aces when we engage our new invader in either bilateral or multilateral actions. These aces strengthen our leverage in any negotiation or campaign. Expectedly, China wants us to throw away all our aces and face our invader in one-on-one in bilateral “diplomacy.� China wants us to strip to our naked infamy as a small and weak country.

Last week, we heard how the two leading presidential candidates, Leni Robredo and Ferdinand Marcos Jr., would deal with our new invader. If Marcos Jr. becomes our next president, he will set aside all our three aces and face China by our lonesome self in bilateral talks. It’s eerily similar to what China wants. If Robredo wins, in contrast, she will use all our three aces and face China in multilateral negotiations or actions.

Looking back on our history as a conquered people, we classify our past leaders into two—the collaborators and the defiant nationalists. How should we classify our leaders now as we face a new invader?

(To be continued)

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[yapoy86]

i agree.
time and again,
interested parties would rather import and make a killing,
instead of buying from the local sources and support local industry. it would appear, there's not much money to be made for oneself, from such a move.

i almost choked on my food, while i was listening over the radio to a government authority who was defending the fish importation. from the person's tone, i suspect even he wasn't buying it.

tagal na tinitira sa media at ng mga radio anchors yan si sec dar.. tigasin din mukha..

[yapoy86]

Importation, it's the middleman that will reap the benefits indeed. Tubong laway lang yan. Of course you need the connections to be given the permit.

may sabi sabi nga na minsan, yung produkto, nandito na.. naka abang lang.. hindi mailabas kasi wala pa permit.. hay.. dami kurap na pilipino..

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Weak ...

Philippines protests Chinese incursion in Sulu Sea │ GMA News Online

[Flipo]

Weak ...

Philippines protests Chinese incursion in Sulu Sea │ GMA News Online

Chinese navy ?spied on? PH-US drills in Palawan | Philstar.com

Chinese navy ‘spied on’ PH-US drills in Palawan
GOTCHA - Jarius Bondoc - The Philippine Star
March 16, 2022 | 12:00am

The Chinese navy trespassed Palawan inner waters during joint Philippine-US military exercises there. People’s Liberation Army-Navy electronic reconnaissance warship 792 lingered east of Palawan on Jan. 29-Feb. 1. Ongoing in the area then, Jan. 27-Feb. 2, were amphibious drills of US Marines with Filipino soldiers.

“Suspicion is that the spy ship was shadowing the activity,” retired general Edilberto Adan told The STAR. The dates cannot just be coincidence, said the former secretariat head of the PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement. PLAN 792 is of Dongdiao class, a missile-tracking electronic surveillance vessel.

The warship was not on “innocent passage” since it did not stick to a straight path, former Phil. Navy chief Adm. Alexander Pama added. It even stopped for two days, he quoted defense sources.

China violated Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, said former Philippine Fleet Commandant Adm. Rommel Jude Ong. “Mere loitering breached our territory,” he explained.

Article 19 allows foreign vessels to pass through a State’s territorial seas. But it prohibits “collecting information to the prejudice of the defence or security of the coastal State.” Also “launching, landing or taking on board any military device” like drones. And “carrying out research or survey.”

Foreign vessels may pass through inner Philippine waters under the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act. Included is a narrow passageway south to north between Palawan and Panay that exits through Mindoro Strait to the West Philippine Sea. It intersects another passageway from Balabac Strait south of Palawan to Surigao Strait in northeast Mindanao, to and from West Philippine Sea and the Pacific. Vessels must keep within the width of the sea lanes, set in longitude and latitude. They must first seek permission to sail through, on a straight path, and stop only for emergency or to seek help.

The US exercises with the AFP jumped off from Brooke’s Point in southeast Palawan and covered both sides of the first passageway. Participating were the AFP Western Command based in Puerto Princesa City and the West Mindanao Command based in Zamboanga City. Purpose: interoperability of troops, communication, vessels, equipment, armaments.

It is “usual” for navies to monitor others’ war games, but in open seas. “China is known to keenly observe Philippine-US drills in our WPS exclusive economic zone up to 200 miles from shore,” said Jay Batongbacal, PhD, international maritime law. “But this is different. Pambabastos ito. PLAN 792 broke UNCLOS and domestic laws.” Worse than barging into the 12-mile outer territorial waters of the Philippines, it sneaked into internal waters and veered away from the designated archipelagic sea lane.

Philippine Navy patrol BRP Antonio Luna challenged the Chinese spy ship and ordered it to leave. Still the intruder ventured northeast to the Cuyo islands of Palawan. Days later, tailed by BRP Antonio Luna, it turned west to Apo Reefs and exited via Mindoro Strait.

Weather was clear around Palawan and Panay that week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2. If PLAN 792 needed to pass south to north of Palawan, it could have traversed the WPS. But entering Balabac Strait, it should have exited to the Pacific via Surigao Strait. Yet it strayed from the straight path and turned to the passageway east of Palawan, despite no medical or engine emergency. By exiting in Mindoro Strait, it in effect traversed three sides of the rectangle bordering Palawan.

“It is an affront on our sovereignty,” said Adan, trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations and former superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy. He expressed the concern of other retired generals in the Advocates for National Interest, which he chairs.

Despite murmurs since early February about the intrusion, Defense officials kept mum. On Monday, March 14, the Dept. of Foreign Affairs summoned Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian: “Desist from entering Philippine waters uninvited and without permission.” China committed an “illegal incursion” and disrespected Philippine territory and maritime jurisdiction, Foreign Undersecretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro said.

PLAN 792 did not inform authorities of intention to pass through, Lazaro said. She cited Article 52 of UNCLOS that pertains to temporary suspension of passage along archipelagic sea lanes for state security after due publication.

“Was that the first and the last incursion?” Rep. Jericho Nograles asked. “Why is it only through a DFA statement that Congress is hearing about this? Were they hiding it?”

The Philippine Navy, Coast Guard and PNP Maritime Command are obliged to report to Congress, even in a confidential manner, any incursions and threats to the Republic, Nograles said. Those armed services are under the Departments of National Defense, Transportation, and Interior and Local Government, respectively.

[Ry_Tower]

Chinese navy ?spied on? PH-US drills in Palawan | Philstar.com

Chinese navy ‘spied on’ PH-US drills in Palawan
GOTCHA - Jarius Bondoc - The Philippine Star
March 16, 2022 | 12:00am

The Chinese navy trespassed Palawan inner waters during joint Philippine-US military exercises there. People’s Liberation Army-Navy electronic reconnaissance warship 792 lingered east of Palawan on Jan. 29-Feb. 1. Ongoing in the area then, Jan. 27-Feb. 2, were amphibious drills of US Marines with Filipino soldiers.

“Suspicion is that the spy ship was shadowing the activity,” retired general Edilberto Adan told The STAR. The dates cannot just be coincidence, said the former secretariat head of the PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement. PLAN 792 is of Dongdiao class, a missile-tracking electronic surveillance vessel.

The warship was not on “innocent passage” since it did not stick to a straight path, former Phil. Navy chief Adm. Alexander Pama added. It even stopped for two days, he quoted defense sources.

China violated Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, said former Philippine Fleet Commandant Adm. Rommel Jude Ong. “Mere loitering breached our territory,” he explained.

Article 19 allows foreign vessels to pass through a State’s territorial seas. But it prohibits “collecting information to the prejudice of the defence or security of the coastal State.” Also “launching, landing or taking on board any military device” like drones. And “carrying out research or survey.”

Foreign vessels may pass through inner Philippine waters under the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act. Included is a narrow passageway south to north between Palawan and Panay that exits through Mindoro Strait to the West Philippine Sea. It intersects another passageway from Balabac Strait south of Palawan to Surigao Strait in northeast Mindanao, to and from West Philippine Sea and the Pacific. Vessels must keep within the width of the sea lanes, set in longitude and latitude. They must first seek permission to sail through, on a straight path, and stop only for emergency or to seek help.

The US exercises with the AFP jumped off from Brooke’s Point in southeast Palawan and covered both sides of the first passageway. Participating were the AFP Western Command based in Puerto Princesa City and the West Mindanao Command based in Zamboanga City. Purpose: interoperability of troops, communication, vessels, equipment, armaments.

It is “usual” for navies to monitor others’ war games, but in open seas. “China is known to keenly observe Philippine-US drills in our WPS exclusive economic zone up to 200 miles from shore,” said Jay Batongbacal, PhD, international maritime law. “But this is different. Pambabastos ito. PLAN 792 broke UNCLOS and domestic laws.” Worse than barging into the 12-mile outer territorial waters of the Philippines, it sneaked into internal waters and veered away from the designated archipelagic sea lane.

Philippine Navy patrol BRP Antonio Luna challenged the Chinese spy ship and ordered it to leave. Still the intruder ventured northeast to the Cuyo islands of Palawan. Days later, tailed by BRP Antonio Luna, it turned west to Apo Reefs and exited via Mindoro Strait.

Weather was clear around Palawan and Panay that week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2. If PLAN 792 needed to pass south to north of Palawan, it could have traversed the WPS. But entering Balabac Strait, it should have exited to the Pacific via Surigao Strait. Yet it strayed from the straight path and turned to the passageway east of Palawan, despite no medical or engine emergency. By exiting in Mindoro Strait, it in effect traversed three sides of the rectangle bordering Palawan.

“It is an affront on our sovereignty,” said Adan, trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations and former superintendent of the Philippine Military Academy. He expressed the concern of other retired generals in the Advocates for National Interest, which he chairs.

Despite murmurs since early February about the intrusion, Defense officials kept mum. On Monday, March 14, the Dept. of Foreign Affairs summoned Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian: “Desist from entering Philippine waters uninvited and without permission.” China committed an “illegal incursion” and disrespected Philippine territory and maritime jurisdiction, Foreign Undersecretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro said.

PLAN 792 did not inform authorities of intention to pass through, Lazaro said. She cited Article 52 of UNCLOS that pertains to temporary suspension of passage along archipelagic sea lanes for state security after due publication.

“Was that the first and the last incursion?” Rep. Jericho Nograles asked. “Why is it only through a DFA statement that Congress is hearing about this? Were they hiding it?”

The Philippine Navy, Coast Guard and PNP Maritime Command are obliged to report to Congress, even in a confidential manner, any incursions and threats to the Republic, Nograles said. Those armed services are under the Departments of National Defense, Transportation, and Interior and Local Government, respectively.

That's what you get when the President is a chinese lackey.

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park kuno..., they're getting all our fish...

Group: Transform WPS into a ‘marine peace park’ | Jonathan L. Mayuga

[Mr. Witcher]

park kuno..., they're getting all our fish...

Group: Transform WPS into a ‘marine peace park’ | Jonathan L. Mayuga

Turukan natin ng covid yung mga isda malapit sa kanila at tiyak lockdown agad yung base nila. [emoji1787]

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Ayan ang ang backdoor entry ng US.
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Just a moment...

Looking Back at the Time When Ancient Visayans Terrorized China
by MARIO ALVARO LIMOS | MAR 31, 2020

[thearsenal1205]

Found this on sm hyper. Bilungual, english then pero yung isa chekwa.

Ok na sana kung bahasa indo or malay.

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coz mainlanders go to supermarkets