{"id":151777,"date":"2018-02-08T05:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151777"},"modified":"2018-02-08T05:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:22:40","slug":"poe-tags-palaces-remarks-on-china-leaving-west-ph-sea-as-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/08\/poe-tags-palaces-remarks-on-china-leaving-west-ph-sea-as-wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe tags Palace’s remarks on China leaving west PH sea as ‘wishful thinking’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe West Philippine Sea will freeze over first before China will even begin toying with the idea of giving us back those islands,\u201d Senator Grace Poe said. (Photo:<\/a> Grace Poe\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe West Philippine Sea will freeze over first before China will even begin toying with the idea of giving us back those islands,\u201d Senator Grace Poe said on Thursday in response to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque\u2019s statement over China\u2019s militarization in the disputed South China Sea, locally called West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n

The Senator said that Roque is \u201cwishful thinking\u201d that China would eventually return the islands claimed by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThus, Secretary Roque’s wishful thinking is like saying that a homeowner may soon be thankful to a gang of fully armed men who unlawfully intruded his place for sometime and made it their safehouse, which in effect prevented other criminals from ransacking the same. And this comes with false hopes that the gang members will decide to give the house back if they have not yet transferred the title under their name,\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n

Roque earlier said that there will come a time that the Philippines will \u201cthank\u201d China one day for the artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

[READ:\u00a0PH to thank China for man-made islands when they \u2018leave\u2019 \u2013 Roque<\/a>]<\/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

“There 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,”\u00a0Roque added.<\/p>\n

For the record, the Liberal Party (LP) of the Philippines has earlier expressed deep concern on Duterte administration\u2019s \u201cnonchalant attitude\u201d on China\u2019s militarization in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n

[READ:\u00a0LP slams Duterte admin\u2019s \u2018nonchalant attitude\u2019 over militarization in South China Sea<\/a>]<\/p>\n

LP President Senator Francis \u201cKiko\u201d Pangilinan reminded the government of its \u201csacred core duty\u201d to protect the country\u2019s territory on behalf of its people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we are deeply troubled that instead of expressing outrage, Malaca\u00f1ang displayed a nonchalant attitude in playing down China\u2019s militarization of the entire South China Sea, including the West Philippine Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe West Philippine Sea will freeze over first before China will even begin toying with the idea of giving us …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[46175,31449,12146],"class_list":["post-151777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-chinas-militarization-in-the-disputed-south-china-sea","tag-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque","tag-senator-grace-poe","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151777","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}