{"id":14008,"date":"2014-06-07T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T07:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14008"},"modified":"2014-06-07T15:11:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T07:11:42","slug":"govt-wont-respond-to-chinas-provocative-actions-palace-maintains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/07\/govt-wont-respond-to-chinas-provocative-actions-palace-maintains\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t won\u2019t respond to China\u2019s provocative actions, Palace maintains"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11519\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Malacanang_palace_view.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA&#8211; Malacanang on Saturday maintained that the Philippine government would not respond to provocative actions by China following reports of movements by Chinese ships in two reefs in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe chosen track that we have taken is that we do not respond to provocative action,\u201d said deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte in an interview over state-run dzRB radio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe always exhaust the diplomatic channels as well as other legal means that can help us address this particular issue,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Valte raised the issue after President Benigno S. Aquino III on Tuesday disclosed that he received reports of \u201cdevelopments in other areas within the disputed seas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe\u2019re not saying that they are exactly the same ships that were used in Mabini, but there seems to be similar ships at the very least in a feature\u2026 one is Gavin Reef, the other is Cuarteron Reef,\u201d the President said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Gavin Reef and Cuarteron Reef are low-tide features in the Spratly Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The President said he also received photographs of the ships, describing them as \u201cships that can be used for reclamation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Valte revealed that the President has not confirmed if actual reclamation has started. She added that it is currently being assessed by the Department of Foreign Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cThis is so that we can find out what the logical next step for us to do in light of the fact that we have already filed our memorial before the arbitral tribunal,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe continue to push for the Code of Conduct,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211; Malacanang on Saturday maintained that the Philippine government would not respond to provocative actions by China following reports of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4791,4790],"class_list":["post-14008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-chinas-provocative-actions","tag-philippine-government","mauthors-azer-n-parrocha","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}