Duterte urged to take back China s war narrative in asserting rights in West Philippine Sea, raise the matter to UN
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 20) There are a number of options available, and war is never one of them.
This is how former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, lawmakers and maritime experts see the recent pronouncements of President Rodrigo Duterte saying that only war or bloodshed can take back the West Philippine Sea from China. You know the cost of war and if we go there and really to find out and assert jurisdiction, it will be bloody, it will result violence that we cannot maybe win, Duterte said in his public briefing on Monday.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (File photo via PNA)
Locsin made the statement after former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised her concern that the Philippines could become a “subject” of China if it will not stand up to Beijing’s “duplicity and being a bully.”
In a tweet, Locsin assured Clinton that unlike the United States, the Philippines will not let such a thing to happen.
“Don’t worry Ma’am, as I told Asia Society, unlike Americans, we wouldn’t sell our mothers even if they were ‘merchantable, ” he said Friday evening.
“We’re not a nation of shopkeepers. US, in your watch, sold us to China.”
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The chase of a Philippine civilian boat by China’s sea assets such as its coast guard and the Type 022 Houbei fast attack craft with two mounted missiles in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and later way into Palawan is tantamount to territorial incursion, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario said on Friday.
Former DFA Secretary Albert Del Rosario (Photo from Philippine Embassy)
Given this latest incident, Del Rosario reiterated his call for the sending of a “demarche” or a direct, purposeful, and pointed petition or protest against China.
The United Nations, according to the former DFA secretary, may be informed through the office of the UN secretary-general.
PH files another diplomatic protest over Chinese ships at reef in WPS
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 7) The Department of Foreign Affairs has fired off another diplomatic protest over the continued presence of Chinese vessels at Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea, marking the start of daily protests until they leave.
“Firing another diplomatic protest,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said over Twitter Wednesday morning. “Every day till the last one’s gone like it should be by now if it is really fishing.
Forty-four Chinese vessels, suspected to be maritime militia, are moored at Julian Felipe Reef, based on latest information from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea. China claims the ships are not militia but fishing vessels taking shelter from bad weather. The DFA in a statement on Monday said these are blatant falsehoods.
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