{"id":215334,"date":"2019-05-21T23:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=215334"},"modified":"2019-05-21T23:38:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:38:38","slug":"palace-on-chinas-fishing-ban-thats-against-the-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/21\/palace-on-chinas-fishing-ban-thats-against-the-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace on China\u2019s fishing ban: \u201cThat\u2019s against the sovereignty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191167\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191167\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Presidential Spokesperson and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Secretary Salvador Panelo holds a press briefing for the Malaca\u00f1ang Press Corps (MPC) on Monday, November 26, 2018, at the New Executive Building (NEB) in Malaca\u00f1ang. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/pcb.769105126757875\/769103913424663\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The fishing ban imposed by China in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) is against Philippine sovereignty, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s against the sovereignty \u2013 that\u2019s our position,\u201d replied Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo when asked in a Palace briefing if the fishing ban was objectionable on the part of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it objectionable for a sovereign country to have its property or island assaulted or intruded into? Your question, if your answer is yes, then the answer to your question is yes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese agricultural ministry reportedly said the annual fishing ban, which covers both Chinese and foreign fishermen, will run from May 1 until August 16.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam \u201cresolutely\u201d rejected China\u2019s unilateral fishing ban decision, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said the government will always be consistent with its policy \u201cthat it will assert its sovereignty over the areas claimed to be its own\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it will always pursue that line,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Spokesman, however, said he will leave it to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. to make a statement on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will leave that to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to make a direct statement on that,\u201d he added, noting that all department heads \u201cknow their jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On April, President Rodrigo Duterte met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 2nd Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China from April 25 to 27 where both leaders reiterated their respective stands on the sea row.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said the two leaders also agreed to use a bilateral consultation mechanism to resolve the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The fishing ban imposed by China in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) is against Philippine sovereignty, Malaca\u00f1ang &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215334","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215335,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215334\/revisions\/215335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}