Absent a formal agreement between the Philippines and China, the latter lifted last week its naval blockage that, for the past four years, had prevented Filipino fishers from gaining access to their traditional fishing areas in the Panatag/Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea (WPS/SCS). Although it’s an ad interim or status quo…
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Overplaying the anti-China card and its blowback
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat Perspective | Bulatlat.com In his state of the nation address in July 2011, President Benigno Aquino III gave a fiery, saber-rattling speech warning China that the government is ready to defend the country against intrusions into its territory, specifically referring to Recto bank, a groups of small islands at the West…