Linking NBN to Spratlys deal threatens RP-China relations

[oliver1013]

Baka nga di naman survey, baka bentahan na..diba nga dati panahon ata ni Ramos o Erap may mga ships na china dun at naglalagay na ng radar ata or some kind of structure..

IMO kung tayo ang malaki at malakas ok lang siguro magpapasok tayo ng small and weak sa territory natin at least any time we change our mind e madali lang. Kaso baliktad tayo yung small, weak and hindi united pag nagbago tayo ng isip at gusto na natin sila paalisin pano yun??

[safeorigin]

palagay ko aside sa mga naibentang public corps ni cory kasama na rin ang mga parte ng pilipinas.

[ringostarr]

maganda nga ang move ng gobyerno eh

we're weak, our military is weak, our people is disunited, even if we have the richest oil in the world, we certainly dont have the money and resources to explore it and to make use of it

so what we did was to let China flood as with billions and billions of loans in exchange for the spratlys.

by the time China decides to take over spratlys, there will be more and more filipinos nationally aware of the future crisis. the billions loaned will be spent for the people regardless if it's kickbacked or not. san din ba iinvest ng pulitiko ang na-kickback. eh di sa SM and businesses din. mas lalo pinoy tatalino and those billions bribe money will be used against China in the future. ang dali-dali naman humingi ng tulong sa US or any other superpower. basta nalaman na may oil dyan, sigurado tulong nila

[safeorigin]

kaya pala malakas si tita glo kay bush hehehe

[awinp]

ei guys how can i post a new thread? what button/s should i press? im just a nwebie in this site. salamat.

[safeorigin]

OT: tingin sa taas at saka ka magstart ng thread

[chilli]

Update

‘Pass baseline bill and let int’l courts rule on Spratlys’



Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines -- House Speaker Prospero Nograles said international courts should settle any conflicts arising from the passage of the baseline bill that seeks to include the disputed Spratlys Islands in the country’s territory.
When Congress resumes session in April, Nograles said the House leadership would not stop a vote on House Bill 3216, which is up for approval on third and final reading.
“If the committee chairman wants to put it to a vote, the leadership will not stop it. It is our policy here that the leadership will always support its committee chair. Kung ano gusto ng committee chairman [What the committee chairman wants], we follow,” he said at a press conference.
The committee chair, Cebu Representative Antonio Cuenco, on Tuesday said he would push for the approval of the bill despite a protest by the Chinese government. He added he was confident of the bill’s approval.
Nograles agreed the chance of the plenary’s approval on third and final reading was “very high” since the bill had been already passed second reading.
Any defects in the measure, he said, can be cured when the House and Senate come together for the bicameral conference, he added.
Besides, Nograles said the bill needs to be passed to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
“What we are approving is only defining our baseline. They [other Spratlys claimants] can define their baselines also and then if there is a conflict, let the international courts settle it,” he said.
This, he said, was “why the UN asked everybody to draw their baselines and then the conflict will be resolved by an international court.”
“But if we don’t draw up our baseline, then what is the basis for settling the dispute? We draw up our baselines first. They draw their own baseline and if there is a, then settle,” Nograles said. “But if all of them draw their baselines, [and] we don’t draw our baseline, they might claim the whole Philippines. We will be on the losing end.”
The other claimants to the Spratlys are China, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan.
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Date: March 26, 2008 16:43:00