Alan James Peveralls initial comment about Philip Bowring, latest Defender of PH sovereignty against China: Brave and I agree! Mr Bowring is an England-born journalist based in Hong Kong - an extremely brave man considering he lives in HK unlike many of our writers in PH, Pinoys to boot, who will bow to China or their agents at the drop of a hat! ======= A NEW HERO, PHILIP BOWRING, THE LATEST DEFENDER OF PH SOVEREIGNTY IN WEST PH SEA v CHINA... Thank you Mr Bowring!!! Mr Bowring writes: In the case of shoals off the Philippines, Chinas case rests on a mix of invented history and the fact that it filed claims first, a poor basis given that it had no continuous presence there and the Philippines initially inherited a treaty between two Western colonial powers. These shoals and other features claimed by China are so obviously within the Philippine exclusive economic zone and in waters long sailed by the peoples of that country that there should be no argument. Scarborough Shoal is about 200km from Luzon, 650km from China. The claim to Half Moon Shoal is even more outrageous. That is the reef where the Philippines arrested Chinese fishermen allegedly with a catch of giant turtles, a protected species. Knee-jerk protests have erupted from Beijing. The reef is 110km from Palawan, nearly 1,500km from China.... More here: scmp/comment/insight-opinion/article/1514360/beijings-dangerous-arrogance-south-china-sea
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 19:20:05 +0000
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