{"id":24250,"date":"2014-08-29T12:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24250"},"modified":"2014-08-29T18:56:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:56:03","slug":"pnoy-china-should-help-ease-tension-in-disputed-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/29\/pnoy-china-should-help-ease-tension-in-disputed-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"PNoy: China should help ease tension in disputed territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21276\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PNoy-Noynoy-Aquino1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21276\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PNoy-Noynoy-Aquino1-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his speech during the commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of Apolinario Mabini at the Mabini Shrine in Barangay Talaga, Tanauan City, Batangas on Wednesday (July 23). With the theme: \u201cMabini: Talino at Paninindigan,\u201d the yearlong festivity aims to honor Mabini, the \u201cSublime Paralytic,\u201d as the brains behind the Philippine revolution. (Photo by Gil Nartea \/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PNoy-Noynoy-Aquino1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PNoy-Noynoy-Aquino1-1024x756.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PNoy-Noynoy-Aquino1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Benigno S. Aquino III delivers his speech during the commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of Apolinario Mabini at the Mabini Shrine in Barangay Talaga, Tanauan City, Batangas on Wednesday (July 23). With the theme: \u201cMabini: Talino at Paninindigan,\u201d the yearlong festivity aims to honor Mabini, the \u201cSublime Paralytic,\u201d as the brains behind the Philippine revolution. (Photo by Gil Nartea \/ Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 President Benigno Aquino III, urged China to help easing the tensions in the South China Sea, instead of intensifying it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the other side would cooperate with us in reducing tensions instead of intensifying it,\u201d Aquino said in Filipino, in a taped radio interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The president also voiced out his concerns over reports of Beijing\u2019s land reclamation activities in the disputed territories.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that according to several intelligence reports, China continues its reclamation efforts including island, rocks and other land features building on territories in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe islands have rights, the rocks don\u2019t, when it comes to what is called their boundaries,\u201d Aquino said, referring to the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone, contiguous zone, continental shelf and territorial sea granted to islands.<\/p>\n<p>The Unclos defines an island as \u201ca naturally formed area of land, surrounded by water, which is above water at high tide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, rocks are only entitled to a 12-nautical mile territorial sea, under the legal definition in the United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Seas (Unclos).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a concern because when completed, those facilities can be used to intensify activities against the Philippine ships (and probably aircraft), carrying out the so-called cabbage strategy against all smaller claimants in the SCS (South China Sea). Whether it is a natural or artificial island is immaterial. It\u2019s what it can actually do that really matters,\u201d Jay Batongbacal said in a text message quoted in a report for the Philippine Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 President Benigno Aquino III, urged China to help easing the tensions in the South China Sea, instead of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[3212,7609],"class_list":["post-24250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-aquino","tag-west-ph-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250","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=24250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}