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China accuses PH of ‘invasion’

Tells UN diplomatic protest on Spratlys map is ‘unacceptable’

By Tessa Jamandre
Vera Files

China has accused the Philippines of "invading" the South China Sea which it claims as wholly its own, the first time it has ever done so.

"Since 1970s, the Republic of the Philippines started to invade and occupy some islands and reefs of China’s Nansha Islands and made relevant territorial claims, to which China objects strongly," China said in a note verbale submitted April 14 to the United Nations in reply to the protest lodged by the Philippines on April 5.

"The Republic of the Philippines’ occupation of some islands and reefs of China’s Nansha islands as well as other related acts constitutes infringement upon China’s territorial sovereignty," according to the note verbale.

Early this month, the Philippines filed a diplomatic protest against China’s 9-dash line territorial claim over the whole of South China Sea, including the Spratlys group, a cluster of oil-rich islands disputed by the Philippines, China and three other countries.

The protest was lodged nearly two years after China filed its 9-dash line map to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). Other claimants, Vietnam and Malaysia, filed their protests the day after China filed its claim in May 2009. Indonesia, which is not among the claimants, filed its protest over China’s map last year.

Of all four diplomatic protests lodged against China’s 9-dash line map, it was only the Philippine protest that China singled out through its note verbale to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

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The Philippine protest that China replied to similarly in a note verbale before the UN Commission on the Law of the Sea came at a stressful time in their bilateral relations after China executed three Filipino drug convicts on March 30, despite a request for leniency from Aquino. It also came after the Philippines filed a diplomatic protest on March 3 over Chinese incursion into Reed Bank, 250 kilometers west of Palawan, where an oil exploration is ongoing. Reed Bank is part of the KIG and is also being claimed by China and Vietnam.

A senior official at the Department of Foreign Affairs said the protest must be "delinked" from the March 30 executions. While the Philippine protest was expected, it was to China’s wonder why it took time.

"It took time for us because the relations that we have nurtured over the decade are important to us. Our excellent relations are paramount. We don’t want to mar it," the official said. "But since it infringes on our sovereignty, we have to do something. Otherwise we cannot face the Filipino people and let that opportunity pass without registering our protest," he said.

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This is very sensitive. I fear that the Chinese Navy will not repeat its 1988-1989 massacre of Vietnamese navy troops when it clashed with Vietnam's Navy on regards to the Vietnamese islands that are also claimed by China.



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One can't get any lamer than that...

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[In 2009], the Philippine Senate passed a bill marking out its maritime boundaries in the country’s claim to part of the islands, taking care to acknowledge rival claims.

It was this legislative move that brought about the column of Hongkong-based Chip Tsao who belittled the Filipinos as “a nation of servants” and implied that our country punches too high beyond its reach for claiming the islands like China.  


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we may punch too high beyond our reach (or much like a maidservant attending a high-society party?), but then countries, like people, can also offer surprises.  and talking of punches, pacquiao's shorter reach had prevailed.  as for the maidservant, well, cinderella is mirrored many times over by life's verities.  

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Hinuon pud. Superpowerdom can likewise be just a state of mind, after all...

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Kalayaan, Palawan

Kalayaan is a 5th class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 223 people in 12 households.

Kalayaan is composed of only one barangay, Pag-Asa. This island has a 1.3 km airstrip that is used both by the military and civilians. It has a regulated civilian population of about 350, most of whom are fishermen. This civilian population is the result of Philippine government initial efforts to put civilians in the Kalayaan. Once a month, a Philippine Navy Ship goes to this island to drop supplies of goods. This island has a water-filtering plant, power generators, weather stations and a communication tower which is built by the Philippine-based SMART Telecommunications.

The municipal government of Kalayaan is making new projects to promote tourism for the island. Also, they had been successful in convincing many Filipino businessmen to invest in Kalayaan. (wikipedia)



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The Philippines essentially claims only the western section of the Spratlys, which is nearest to Palawan. (wikipedia)

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