Zarate insisted China’s increasing aggressiveness in the West Philippine Sea can be attributed to the now failed pivot to China policy of the Duterte administration.
“If the Duterte administration early on stood up for our sovereignty, fully asserted the country’s historic victory at the Permanent Court of Arbitration and aggressively pushed for a code of conduct among claimant countries, then China could not have further occupied and militarized reefs and islands, even those already within our exclusive economic zone ,” Zarate said in a statement on Sunday, April 4.
The Chinese embassy in Manila has justified it as “completely normal for Chinese fishing vessels” to be present at the Julian Felipe reef, which it calls Niu’e Jiao, as it allegedly “part of China’s Nansha Islands.” “The Chinese maritime militia fleet is not there because of a weather disturbance but as a prelude to fully occupying Julian Felipe Reef, do reclamation activities and convert it into another artificial island-cum-military installation, like what they did to at least seven of our reefs,” the solon said.
It is not about taking the extremes. look at Indonesia, they approach China with dignity. Mas nauna pa sila binigyan ng China ng vaccine.
Bilib na bilib po ang ating leader sa china.... Kulang nalang yata sambahin nya.
DERECHOHAN NA, RED CHINA LUMAYAS KAYO SA JULIAN FELIPE REEF, RIGHT NOW, THAT'S AN ORDER!
Too late
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