{"id":151697,"date":"2018-02-07T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151697"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:11:13","slug":"ph-to-thank-china-for-man-made-islands-when-they-leave-roque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/07\/ph-to-thank-china-for-man-made-islands-when-they-leave-roque\/","title":{"rendered":"PH to thank China for man-made islands when they \u2018leave\u2019 \u2013 Roque"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Philippines will be grateful to China for the artificial islands the Red Dragon built in the Philippine territory if the Chinese would \u201cleave,\u201d according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, eventually, those artificial islands will be ours if we can ask China to leave the islands,\u201d Roque said in an interview on February 7, posted on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about legality, Roque said, \u201cThere will come a time when China\u2019s might had ceased, when we will have to thank them for the islands because it is only the Philippines the can legally build on those artificial islands.<\/p>\n

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\u201d<\/p>\n

During a press briefing on February 5, Roque defended the administration on the issue of China\u2019s reclamation and militarization of its artificial islands.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, what do you want us to say? All that we could do is to extract a promise from China not to reclaim any new artificial islands. But what you featured in your newspaper today, are old reclaimed islands that were there even before the Duterte administration came to office,\u201d he further said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Aquino administration was not able to do anything about these artificial islands, what [do] they want us to do? We cannot declare war. Not only is it illegal, but it is also\u2026 because it\u2019s impossible for us to declare war at this point,\u201d Roque added.<\/p>\n

(Read: Report negates Palace statement on China militarization<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Aquino administration filed a case in 2013 to oppose China\u2019s claim in the South China Sea, but this did not stop China\u2019s militarization.<\/p>\n

Apart from territorial issues, China\u2019s reclamation in the disputed areas also damaged about 300 acres of the Pearl of the Orient Seas\u2019 coral reefs.<\/p>\n

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“China has pursued these activities unilaterally, disregarding peoples in the surrounding states who have depended on the sea for their livelihood for generations. The destruction of 300 acres of coral reef systems resulting from the reclamations is estimated to lead to economic losses to coastal states valued at US$100 million annually,” the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement back in April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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