@CBSMornings@mariaressa 40% of Filipinos are the scammed
40% of Filipinos are the scammers
The other 20% are hoping for a miracle.
Be safe @mariaressa
You are a great reason to have hope for the Philippines.
@MinhDr18@rs015dbph The only surety when making agreements with China is that they will brazenly break it whenever convenient.
To be in China’s shadow is to be subject to bullying, thievery, corruption & foreign meddling.
An honorable, trustworthy, benevolent China is nonexistent in modern times.
@RommelFLopez The CCP’s special talent is stripping sovereign nations of their resources. It’s currently happening worldwide.
Only an unserious moron could claim China would ever honor any agreement it enters into with Philippines -a nation they treat everyday with utter disrespect and malice.
@nicoquejano If Filipinos could suddenly walk, swim, crawl to another country for a better life, PH would empty out in days.
Alex Pretti & the protestors are fighting for the rights of their immigrant neighbors to work for a better life for their families.
Maga Pinoys can F themselves.
@nicoquejano Cubans in the U.S. think they’re superior to Mexicans. Filipinos in the U.S. think they’re superior to Latinos. ICE takes one look at ANY individual among these groups and only sees BROWN SKIN.
And BROWN SKIN= ILLEGAL.
Hey MAGA Asian, go ahead and hug an ICE agent today.
@nicoquejano These maga Filipinos are no different from Latinos for Trump.
Give a marginalized group another marginalized group to demonize and feel superior to and they are happy to crawl beneath the authoritarian boot and apply pressure to their own necks.
“Beware of the one who speaks with forked tongue.”
Earlier today, the Deputy Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy released a statement criticizing and rejecting the Philippine National Maritime Council’s recent statements on the West Philippine Sea.
The Chinese Embassy statement says that the Philippines has always blurred the distinction between a territorial sea and an EEZ. It then enumerated several acts by the Philippines that supposedly “provoked tensions” in waters claimed by both countries as part of their respective EEZs, going as far back as the grounding of the BRP Sierra Madre on Ayungin Shoal. The statement also hits at the Philippines’ supposed unwillingness to sit down and talk the way China has supposedly resolved its territorial disputes with other countries. It also blames Filipino patriots like PCG Spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela for allegedly spreading ”twisted, manipulative, and provocative narratives” that pushes the Philippines to conflict with its “friend”, China.
All of this is Orwellian doublespeak.
First of all, the Philippines has no overlapping EEZ with China. China is around 900 kilometers away from the Philippines at their nearest points between Hainan and Palawan. Calculating a 300 kilometer EEZ for both countries from their respective baselines, that still leaves a healthy 300 kilometer buffer zone between them.
Second, the problem from the very start is China’s nine-dash line claim. Regardless of the distinction between a territorial sea and an EEZ, it does not really matter because China itself is guilty of the most absurd disregard for legal distinctions when it claims the whole of the South China Sea as its territorial waters. There is nothing that blurs the distinction between territorial sea and EEZ more than China’s preposterous and infantile nine-dash line fairy tale that, surprisingly, it keeps on using in serious international legal forums, expecting the rest of the world to be so stupid as to take it seriously.
Third, of course China conveniently skipped its own history of aggression in the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal in its litany of so-called provocative actions of the Philippines. China has selective amnesia about its island-building in the Spratly Islands. China now has seven military outposts in the area which are the largest among claimant countries. It also failed to mention its own aggressive actions against Philippine fisherfolk and PCG personnel when it purportedly defends an imaginary Chinese coast 1,000 kilometers away from China. It is not the Philippines’ fault when the Chinese ram their own ships while chasing PCG vessels.
Finally, the statement of the Chinese Embassy should be of serious concern to us Filipinos and our leaders as it comes on the heels of the US attack on Venezuela, threatened action against Iran, and claims over Greenland. As one superpower flexes, it is not so far remote that its rival tries out its own ambitions for regional dominance. China says defending what is rightfully ours under international law is not to our benefit as it deprives us of their friendship. Of course, China is not offering friendship as it is demanding capitulation. They are not asking us to be their friends. They are asking the Philippines to be their vassal. That is what the intimidation, aggression, and violence in the WPS is all about.
If the Chinese Embassy chooses to spread lies about China’s aggression in the WPS and target Philippine officials for doing their job in calling out said aggression, instead of letting Beijing itself dish out the hostility, it might as well stop pretending to be a diplomatic mission and convert itself into just another Chinese troll farm.
The region marked in Red is China's actual Exclusive Economic Zone, as mandated by the UNCLOS.
Everything else other than this claimed by China is unlawful, unjustified, illegitimate and criminal!
The Nine Dash Line is nothing but the result bad hallucinations of the successive Chinese dictators.
@jaytaryela As a citizen and resident of the Philippine ISLANDS, how detached can you be from the waters that surround our every border?
Do you eat, travel or buy literally anything?
Then free passage through our own waters should matter to you.