{"id":163053,"date":"2018-05-08T03:11:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163053"},"modified":"2018-05-08T05:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T09:22:52","slug":"malacanang-duterte-to-visit-ph-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/08\/malacanang-duterte-to-visit-ph-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaca\u00f1ang: Duterte to visit PH Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roque further said that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will also be marking the start of the scientific research of the Philippine Rise (TOTO LOZANO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang said that the President will be visiting the Philippine Rise to commemorate its renaming from its previous \u201cBenham Rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement came from Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. during a press conference on May 8, Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President will be commemorating the renaming of Benham Rise to Philippine Rise by visiting the Philippine Rise itself, and this on May 15 to 16,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Roque further said that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will also be marking the start of the scientific research of the Philippine Rise, which will be conducted by about 50 scientists.<\/p>\n

Duterte in a speech on April 26 declared that he will sail to the Philippine Rise to assert the Philippines\u2019 ownership of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext week, I\u2019m going to set sail to Benham Rise and I will make a statement there that nobody but nobody owns this place, including the continental shelf,\u201d he said, though he really did not sail to the Philippine Rise the week after that declaration.<\/p>\n

This was Duterte\u2019s response to the critics of his administration\u2019s stance to allow China to explore parts of the South China Sea, when the latter refuses to acknowledge the Philippines\u2019 ownership of some parts of the disputed waters.<\/p>\n

Duterte and his administration have downplayed several territorial disputes with China to prioritize the ties of the former with the Philippines.<\/p>\n

One of these was China\u2019s move to submit names of undersea features from the Philippine Rise. Duterte in a speech said that it was understandable for China to do such thing as they are Chinese.<\/p>\n

\u201cEh alangan nilang gawing <\/em>German? Ang alam nila<\/em> Chinese eh. Those are just directions na tapos na sila d\u2019yan <\/em>(Well, should they name it in German? Chinese is the language they know. Those are just directions that they are finished there),\u201d he said in mid-February.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Roque, however, confirmed that they tapped the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to protest China\u2019s move. The protest was rejected.<\/p>\n

(Read: SCUFN rejects PH\u2019s plea to nullify PH Rise feature naming<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Recent reports also revealed that China has been militarizing some of its man-made islands along the Spratly group of islands. Despite this, the administration said that it believes in China\u2019s good faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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