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Business steps in to end Spratlys row
« on: June 05, 2011, 09:33:33 AM »
By Max De Leon and Estrella Torres, Business Mirror
Posted at 06/03/2011 7:41 AM | Updated as of 06/03/2011 7:41 AM
 

MANILA, Philippines - Filipino businessmen will take the initiative to help finally put an end to the decades-long Spratlys dispute among claimants, including the Philippines and China, by gathering all the business chambers of the different countries that have interests on the islands to a meeting where they will draw up economic, rather than political, solutions to the conflict.

This came as Beijing said on Thursday that it is not violating an existing accord with the presence of its marine research ships in the disputed islands of Spratlys in South China Sea that angered claimant countries to the territory, including the Philippines.

In a statement on Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in Manila said the reported “incursion of Chinese ships” on the South China Sea is not true.

“It’s only China’s marine research ship conducting normal maritime research activities on the South China Sea,” said the statement e-mailed to Manila-based journalists.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) filed another diplomatic protest early this week with China based on military reports on the sighting of Chinese coastal marine surveillance ships in the Spratlys.

Francis Chua, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), said approaching the issue from an economic perspective with all the six claimants benefiting evenly is the key to the Spratlys resolution.

“The PCCI will call all the business organizations of these countries to a meeting. We will start with the private institutions. We will come up with the economic solution and then pressure our governments to toe the line,” Chua, also a former president of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and special trade envoy to China, told the BusinessMirror.

The Philippines, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia are the six claimants over the oil-rich Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Early this week, Manila filed a diplomatic protest over the reported Chinese intrusions at a Philippine-claimed island in the Spratlys.

Chua said they do not believe the problem will escalate into a full-blown military conflict since China will not opt to fight its major trading partners.

“Asean [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] is a big market for China. China cannot afford to fight with its customers. All these worries are mere speculations. Did they send their military to occupy the islands? No, they will not do that, I give you that guarantee,” Chua said.

He said the only stumbling block to a full resolution is a viable economic venture that will embody the principle of co-ownership of the disputed islands.

This, Chua said, is what the PCCI will seek to develop when they sit down with the respective business chambers of the other claimants.

“This is an economic matter rather than a political issue. We will come up with an economic resolution and then sit down with the governments,” Chua said.

 


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Re: Business steps in to end Spratlys row
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2011, 09:34:56 AM »
‘Put house in order’

A senior diplomat disclosed on Thursday that “there is now a logical trending” on Chinese activities on the Spratly Islands that may have connection to its application in the United Nations for deep-sea mining in parts of Indian Ocean. The deep-sea mining could have an impact on the South China Sea, said Filipino diplomats.

DFA officials said China has increased its presence and activities in the Spratlys in the last four months of 2010.

A senior diplomat briefing journalists at the DFA on Thursday said the government “needs to put the house in order and stand on high moral ground” by passing maritime legislations in line with the UN Convention on the Laws of Seas (Unclos) to safeguard its interest in the disputed islands of Spratlys in the South China Sea.

These two legislative measures include the Philippine Maritime Zones Act that defines the country’s maritime zones and the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act pending at the House of Representatives and Senate, respectively.

The Philippine government is pushing for stronger international and regional engagement to counter China’s increased presence and activities on the Spratly Islands that violate an accord with the Asean.

DFA spokesman Eduardo Malaya on Thursday said China’s increased presence and activities in the disputed islands should prompt the immediate drafting of a “more binding Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea.” The proposed binding code is now the subject of high-level deliberations between China and the 10-member Asean.

China’s increased presence and activities in the Spratlys this year began on February 25 at Jackson Atoll, 140 nautical miles from Palawan, where the Chinese military vessels reportedly fired shots at Philippine fishing vessels.

The Philippines also protested the Reed bank incident in March, where the Philippine Navy saw Chinese platforms and structures in the area.

Amid the diplomatic protest with China, a proadministration legislator proposed the renaming of South China Sea to Western Philippine Sea, a move observers said would create a spat with Beijing.

In House Resolution 1350, Party-list Rep. Walden Bello of Akbayan urged the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry into the process of renaming the South China Sea to Western Philippine Sea or “Kanlurang Dagat ng Pilipinas.”

“The Philippine government must assert its authority over Philippine territories. By renaming the South China Sea to Western Philippine Sea, we are taking a proactive move that strengthens our claim to these controversial waters and the natural resources found within,” said Bello.

In filing the resolution, Bello said the misnomer “South China Sea” has given undue advantage to China’s territorial assertion in the area and prejudices other countries’ claims. --  http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

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Re: Business steps in to end Spratlys row
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2011, 09:55:48 PM »
“Asean [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] is a big market for China. China cannot afford to fight with its customers. All these worries are mere speculations. Did they send their military to occupy the islands? No, they will not do that, I give you that guarantee,” Chua said.

thus a chinese speaks.  :-X

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Re: Business steps in to end Spratlys row
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2011, 09:58:37 PM »
In House Resolution 1350, Party-list Rep. Walden Bello of Akbayan urged the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry into the process of renaming the South China Sea to Western Philippine Sea or “Kanlurang Dagat ng Pilipinas.”

wouldn't this be bringing it too far?

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Re: Business steps in to end Spratlys row
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2011, 10:11:28 PM »
In filing the resolution, Bello said the misnomer “South China Sea” has given undue advantage to China’s territorial assertion in the area and prejudices other countries’ claims.

a similar "misnomer" had been solved in the middle east.  for all intent and purposes, the old name "persian gulf" has been renamed "arabian gulf" in new and more enlightened maps.  that crucial gulf where all oil tankers pass belongs to all countries surrounding it.  so western philippine sea instead of south china sea is somewhat thoughtless.  it might not only irritate china but also the other countries surrounding it that happen to be claimants to the spratlys too.



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Re: Business steps in to end Spratlys row
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2012, 09:20:12 PM »
“This is an economic matter rather than a political issue. We will come up with an economic resolution and then sit down with the governments,” Chua said.

Estoryaheee! :P

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