{"id":165752,"date":"2018-06-01T01:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165752"},"modified":"2018-06-01T01:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T05:40:15","slug":"all-the-duterte-govt-got-from-china-is-continuing-harassment-amti-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/01\/all-the-duterte-govt-got-from-china-is-continuing-harassment-amti-director\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Duterte gov\u2019t got from China is ‘continuing harassment’: AMTI Director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Poling who is also a fellow with the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said that only \u201cinternational pressure\u201d can convince China to change its ways. (Photo<\/a>: CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) slammed the administration after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) defended that the government is doing its part in diplomacy against China but not letting the public know.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the Duterte government has gotten for its trouble is increased Chinese military deployments, continuing harassment of Filipino troops and economic activities in its waters, promises of investment that haven\u2019t yet materialized, and talks about a code of conduct and joint development that seem to be going nowhere,\u201d AMTI Director Gregory Poling said in an interview with Rappler on May 31, Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Poling who is also a fellow with the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said that only \u201cinternational pressure\u201d can convince China to change its ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way China might be convinced to bring its claims into accordance with international law and treat fairly with its neighbors as if international pressure \u2013 diplomatic and economic \u2013 convinces it that there are costs to its current strategy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe format really isn\u2019t material. What matters is that Philippine objections be made public to help pressure Beijing to change its ways and to support like-minded states like Vietnam, who are doing the same,\u201d Poling added.<\/p>\n

The AMTI director stressed that \u201cquietly passing notes to Beijing\u201d as well as \u201crefusing to acknowledge\u201d the harassment of China public is not helping increase that pressure.<\/p>\n

Poling is not the first to negate Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano\u2019s claim on private diplomacy.<\/p>\n

(Read: Security analyst says diplomatic actions should be publicized<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cMainam na isapubliko \u2018yan para naman makumbinsi \u2018yung mamamayang Pilipino, para mapakita na merong ginagawang\u00a0<\/em>diplomatic actions\u00a0ang ating pamahalaan at doon lang talaga \u2018yung pwede nating gawin\u00a0<\/em>(It is better to publicize these to convince the Filipinos and to ensure them that our government is conducting diplomatic actions and that these are the only things we can do right now),\u201d University Professor Rommel Banlaoi said in an interview with GMA News on May 31, Thursday.<\/p>\n

These experts were reacting to what Cayetano said during the briefing by the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been filing a diplomatic protest. But the critics want us to announce it loudly and to confront China each and every time to the media. That is not conducive through the ongoing talks,\u201d Cayetano said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral dozens. Maybe 50, 100. I have to count it over the past two years,\u201d he said, referring to the number of the said protests filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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