Spratly islands are claimed by Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, VietNam, the
Philippines and China by part or wholly.
As the AFP deputy chief of staff for civil military operations,
Commodore Miguel Jose Rodriguez said on Media that "
Viet Nam calls it their East Sea and China call it their South Sea. We in the Philippines should call it West Philippine Sea.”
The islands are believed to be atop massive oil and gas deposits.
A 1.3 million square mile covering of the Pacific Ocean enclosed by China, and several Southeast Asian nations is dotted with hundreds of largely unoccupied islands and coral atolls that are home to be various of the world's most diverse marine life.
However, behind the cause of this territorial claim lies potentially huge reserves of natural gas and oil.
The Story of South China Sea: Troubled Waters
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The world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, Exxon Mobil explores the Sulu Sea and expecting to drill millions of barrels of oil.
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US ambassador Harry Thomas said that “The Philippines and the United States are strategic treaty allies. We are partners. We will continue to consult and work with each other on all issues, including the South China Sea and Spratly islands,”
The Philippines and the United States will start 11 days of maritime security drills near disputed waters in the West Philippine Sea or well known as South China Sea. War games on June 28 to July 8, 2011.
WOTL: Akin ang Spratlys, Iyo ang Spratlys
Word Of The Lourd
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“ASEAN does not require submission of a formal report. Many of our ASEAN member-countries, our friends in ASEAN, are aware of the different things that were happening just like we are aware of the different things that are happening with China and Vietnam; Vietnam is aware of the incidents that are happening between China and the Philippines and this is being communicated to our ASEAN neighbors. So there may not be a need to submit the same kind of report to the ASEAN, but we will submit to the United Nations,” Carandang said.
What if we allow China to invade the Spratly Island.
Word Of The Lourd
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2 comments:
Just like Lourd De Veyra said to his videos, we are nothing against China. We have nothing to do against them, because they are one of the most powerful country.
Spratly Islands
The reality is that we cannot beat other countries especially China in claiming those Spratlys group of islands because of our weak arm forces. All we can do is to hope that this will end in a peaceful way with all those countries will gonna have same benefits from those islands.
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