Another show of incompetence
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It was ominous that the 113th celebration of the country’s independence should come with trouble brewing in the South China Sea, where the country has a competing claim with China and a list of other Asian countries on the potentially mineral-rich Spratly Islands.
The Philippines, based on proximity, has among the strongest case on the claim on the islands and other geographically closer land mass in the area. China, however, with its military might is determinedly pushing its territorial claim to the extent of areas which are clearly and without contest within the country’s boundaries.
The Aquino administration has been responding to the Chinese incursions lately — which if strictly defined would be an invasion of the Philippine territory — but in a confused way, such that in one day Noynoy would say that China’s acts of intimidation are exaggerated and on the same breath blame the media for blowing the issue out of proportion while on the next day the Palace would report that it is contemplating on filing a protest against China with the United Nations..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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