Taiwan’s Spratlys missile plan ‘unsettles’ RP
10/17/2011While branding Taiwan’s plan to deploy modern missiles in the Spratlys in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) as “quite unsettling,” the Department of National Defense (DND) is not alarmed by the move, citing the good relationship between the Philippines and Taiwan.
Defense spokesman Zo-simo Jesus Paredes yesterday admitted that the Philippines cannot do anything about Taiwan’s reported plan to arm its Coast Guard units deployed in Taiping and the Pratas islands, also being claimed by China, with Chaparral or Tien Chien I Missiles.
“That’s their (Taiwan) own prerogative, should they want to do that nobody can stop them,” he added.
“(But) they should not encroach into other interest so that peace will prevail. If they are just to protect their interest, there is no problem,” Paredes stressed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111017hed4.html
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whatever.
"“Well, it’s quite unsettling because it’s something out of the ordinary but nonetheless they took their own actions and we cannot really stop them from doing that,” he added."
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