{"id":55002,"date":"2015-07-09T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55002"},"modified":"2015-07-09T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T09:45:17","slug":"ph-refusal-to-hold-talks-with-china-a-bad-move-marcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/09\/ph-refusal-to-hold-talks-with-china-a-bad-move-marcos\/","title":{"rendered":"PH refusal to hold talks with China a bad move — Marcos"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sen.<\/a>
Sen. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA —\u00a0\u201cChina opened the door and we shut it.”<\/p>\n

This is what Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said on Wednesday referring to China’s reported offer to hold talks on the West Philippine Sea dispute.<\/p>\n

Marcos said that the country’s continued refusal to conduct a dialogue with China\u00a0\u201cwill force the superpower to take a more hardline position” in the disputed territories.<\/p>\n

“The Chinese said let\u2019s talk and we snubbed them. It\u2019s like the Philippine government itself is encouraging China to take and maintain an unbending stance on the issue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Marcos said that he sees “more than enough reason” to push through with bilateral talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not be snobbish. I can\u2019t see any reason at all why we are not talking to China. On the contrary, there are more than enough obvious reasons why we should talk to superpower China,\u201d \u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re strategically important to any great power in Asia-Pacific, but we have to play that role even-handedly. We have to stop thinking in terms of kakampi ko ang Chinese, kakampi ko ang Kano. Ang kakampi mo lang Pilipino,\u201d he\u00a0added.<\/p>\n

Marcos said that by talking to China, the Philippines could lay down its terms and find out a solution in the dispute.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo talk, and tell them: we are not happy with what you are doing and we do not agree with what you are doing. But the next thing you say is: how do we fix this?”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want war. Arbitration is not one that is going to be recognized by the Chinese. So it has to be negotiations,\u201d \u00a0 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA —\u00a0\u201cChina opened the door and we shut it.” This is what Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said on Wednesday …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":51641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55002","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=55002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}