P-Noy to China: Pull out ships from shoal

**Altis6453** · July 9th, 2012 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by oliver1013

Ok lang naman mag matigas Pilipinas kahit alam ng lahat na alikabok lang military natin, hind rin naman talaga lulusob ang China kaya hindi na natin kailangan pa pagusapan kung tutulong ang US o hinde.

Ang point dito kahit papano di tayo basta tumutupi..Bluff man yun kuno at least buma bluff.. hindi basta nalng bumubukaka at nag pa parape.

Mas mabuti nalang yung asong walang ipin pero tumatahol, kesa sa asong wala na ngang ipin, di pa marunong tumahol.

China won't start a shooting war, but they will do everything to provoke and harass, as evidenced by their actuations with the USNS Impeccable. They can use their marine vessels to "accidentally" sink PH vessels without firing a shot.

**pop3corn** · July 10th, 2012 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by safeorigin

-Art of War

- The Prince

lalim nyan ah puro Machiavelli

**Boy Bastos** · July 10th, 2012 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Altis6453

China won't start a shooting war, but they will do everything to provoke and harass, as evidenced by their actuations with the USNS Impeccable. They can use their marine vessels to "accidentally" sink PH vessels without firing a shot.

Yup. Gunboat diplomacy vs Silent Diplomacy.

Ano mas effective?

:D

**Boy Bastos** · July 13th, 2012 05:20 PM

A Chinese warship has run aground while patrolling contested waters adjacent to the Philippines in the South China Sea.

The frigate pinned itself to a reef last night at Half Moon Shoal, on the south-eastern edge of the Spratly Islands, and remains "thoroughly stuck", according to Western diplomatic sources shortly after midday local time, or 2pm AEST.

Salvage operations could be diplomatically challenging, given the vessel appears to have run aground within 200 kilometres of the Philippines coast, which is squarely within what Manila claims to be its Exclusive Economic Zone.

The stricken People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, believed to be No. 560, a Jianghu-class frigate, has in the past been involved in aggressively discouraging Filipino fishing boats from the area.
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The accident could not have come at a more embarrassing moment for the Chinese leadership, who have been pressing territorial claims and flexing the country's muscle ahead of a leadership transition later this year.

Today's meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Cambodia ended in disarray, without a code of conduct for resolving conflicts in the South China Sea, following robust intervention from China.

Also this week, China yesterday dispatched one of its largest-ever fishing expeditions from Hainan Island to another disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.

Earlier in the week, PLA generals and top foreign policy advisers urged China to do more to press its claims.

Cui Liru, president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a leading think tank that reports to the main intelligence department, said Beijing had previously focused too much on seeking common ground with its neighbours and putting disputes on the shelf.

"In the foreseeable future, say at least in five years, the Asia-Pacific region will still be showing every feature of a transitional period, which is characterised by a certain level of chaos," he said.

China's ministry of foreign affairs was not immediately available for comment.

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**Boy Bastos** · July 13th, 2012 05:26 PM

Within 200km from Palawan lang daw. Nasaan na ang high-tech Zumwalt-class Gregorio del Pilar? Nakikiramay pa kay Pidol. hehe :D

**timrev** · July 13th, 2012 05:28 PM

ang masaklap pa nag install na sila ng powerful radar sa kalayaan island....inunahan na tayo...baka ang sumunod maglagay na sila ng SAM

**CVT** · July 17th, 2012 09:18 AM

Oo nga naman,- "PULL OUT NA KAYO!!!......... pls"....

16.3K:shower:

**Monseratto** · July 17th, 2012 11:04 AM

What if this happened in Panatag Shoal?

(Reuters) - One person was killed and three others injured on Monday when a U.S. Navy ship fired at an approaching fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates, but officials did not immediately blame terrorism or cite an Iran-link to the still-murky incident.

Why the boat approached the U.S. refuel ling ship, the USNS Rappahannock, was still unclear, U.S. officials said. But the U.S. Navy said the small motor boat ignored repeated warnings to halt its approach before a security team fired rounds from a .50-caliber machine gun.
But the incident was also reminder of how quickly a confrontation can turn deadly in the Gulf, where tensions with Iran have triggered military buildup by the United States and its allies.

Those killed and injured in Monday's incident were not Iranians and it was unclear whether the incident may have been a mere misunderstanding. The UAE state news agency, quoting a government official, identified all of the dead and wounded as Indian nationals.

The shooting took place in the waters near the UAE port of Jebel Ali, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said in a statement.

"The U.S. crew repeatedly attempted to warn the vessel's operators to turn away from their deliberate approach," it said, adding the incident was under investigation.

ACCELERATING DEPLOYMENT

The incident came as the U.S. military has bolstered its presence in the region, sending additional fighter jets, deploying a floating naval base and doubling the number of mine-sweepers in recent months.