{"id":152924,"date":"2018-02-15T03:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T08:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152924"},"modified":"2018-02-15T03:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T08:24:55","slug":"expert-ph-protest-on-chinese-names-maybe-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/15\/expert-ph-protest-on-chinese-names-maybe-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert: PH protest on Chinese names maybe too late"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Dr. Jay Batongbacal (Photo by Jay L. Batongbacal\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the Philippine government objected the Chinese government\u2019s move of naming five undersea features in Philippine Rise or formerly known as Benham Rise, a maritime law expert said that this may be too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi ko alam kung mag-wo<\/em>-work iyan[g<\/em> protest] dahil tapos na ang proseso<\/em>. Open ang<\/em> process. It was transparent. So parang medyo nakakahiya rin naman sa atin na<\/em> too late the hero naman tayo na biglang mag-o<\/em>-object (I do not know if that protest will work because the process is done. The process was open. It was transparent. So it is a bit embarrassing for us as too late the hero to suddenly object),\u201d Dr. Jay Batongbacal said in an interview with DZMM.<\/p>\n

Batongbacal, director of the University of the Philippines (UP) Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea then added, \u201cTechnically, alam nating nangyari iyon tapos hindi tayo umaalma<\/em> (we know what is happening yet we are not protesting). It\u2019s going to be awkward and in a way, [and] out of order na<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to his Facebook post, the International Hydrographic Organization-Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (IHO-IOC GEBCO) approved the said names.<\/p>\n

He said that three of the undersea features were reportedly discovered during a survey by the China Navy Hydrographic Office\u2019s Li Siguang Hao in 2004, while the names were submitted in 2014.<\/p>\n

The other two were also reported to be discovered by the same vessel during the same survey. However, the proposed names were submitted in 2016, by the China Ocean Minerals R & D Association.<\/p>\n

Batongbacal said that the government should have protested as early as 2004 or between 2014 and 2017.<\/p>\n

He also argued that these developments in the Philippine Rise should be known by the Philippines as China\u2019s name proposals to IHO are accessible online.<\/p>\n

On February 14, Malaca\u00f1ang through spokesman Harry Roque, Jr. said, \u201cWe object and do not recognize the Chinese names given to some undersea features in the Philippine Rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Read: Palace on PH Rise Chinese names: We object<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Roque added that the government has already contacted China on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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