MSOpinion Issues behind the South China Sea (Part 2) “The Philippines should have asserted jurisdiction over the area when the US was using the Shoal as gunnery range for its aircraft and naval ships operating from Clark and Subic.” READ:
“The Philippines should have asserted jurisdiction over the area when the US was using the Shoal as gunnery range for its aircraft and naval ships operating from Clark and Subic.”It took much time for the US to analyze the strategic value of the islands like the Spratly Group of Islands that deprived the Philippines of its 12-nautical mile-limit on the territorial waters under international law.
We opted to demarcate our boundary because many of boundaries were so wide that it allowed foreign ships to traverse our internal waters, thinking that they form part of our open sea. The problem of expanding every country’s exclusive economic zone visibly influenced the decision of the Philippines to grant license to service contractors to exploit mineral resources found within our EEZ.
Service contracts, strictly speaking, are demarcated outside the Treaty of Paris signed between the US and Spain. Thus, when we entered into a joint exploration agreement with China, we insisted in concluding an agreement based on our Constitution on a 60-40 basis. China’s decision to agree to a 60-40 partition was with the thought they were dealing with a government-owned entity.
This also exposed the truth that the so-called “Freedomland” allegedly discovered by Tomas Cloma turned out to be ancient historical islets long in the possession of Chinese fishermen.
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