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Ch militia vessels shouldn’t be within Ph EEZ
By J.Lo
“We don’t know what they’re planning to do, but in the first place they should not even be there,” Philippine Navy spokesman for the West Philippine Sea Commodore Roy Vincent Trinidad said, referring to the Chinese thirty Chinese maritime militia vessels have been spotted in vicinity of Rozul Reef off Palawan, while Vietnam has reportedly scaled up its dredging activities in Kalayaan Island Group.
Trinidad said number of Chinese maritime militia or People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy vessels spotted keep changing and it is not surprising.
“They shouldn’t be there…they are China’s agents of aggression, and they’re entering our exclusive economic zone…we should really be focused on this it’s incursion,” he said.
Trinidad said Chinese maritime militia vessels, coast guard and PLA ships spotted around nine features in West Philippine Sea vary in number.
According to Trinidad, Philippine Navy is also monitoring Vietnam’s increasing dredging and landfill work in South China Sea.
US researchers said Vietnam is speeding up South China Sea building pace, creating almost as much new land as in previous two years combined, setting stage for record year of island-building.
“We’re closely monitoring it but I believe the more appropriate agency to give details of that would be DFA ,Department of Foreign Affairs… DFA is acting on it,” Trinidad stressed.
Meanwhile, member of House committee on national defense and security said areas in the country’s territorial waters being subjected to intrusions by China should be marked as such in maps.
Bukidnon Rep. Jonathan Keith Flores said word West Philippine Sea should also be used to identify this water territory in radio challenges and notices to mariners and aircraft navigators and pilots, among other communications.
“We need new maps showing West Philippine Sea. .. Google Maps, navigational maps used by all local and international ships and aircraft and maps in Philippine textbooks should all show where West Philippine Sea is… encyclopedias should also show where West Philippine Sea is,” Trinidad said.
Flores added National Mapping and Resource Information Authority’s Philippine administrative map should be made widely available locally and overseas.
“Notably, nowhere on Google Maps can you find name ‘West Philippine Sea,’ but name ‘South China Sea’ is there, smack in middle of Southeast Asia. ..Philippine Sea is there but Philippine Rise is not,” Trinidad maintained.
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