Tag: Kagitingan Reef

Locsin: PHL should protest China’s construction of maritime center on Kagitingan Reef if true

(Eagle News)—Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Saturday, Feb. 2, said the Philippines should “protest” China’s construction of a maritime center on Kagitingan Reef if reports on this were true. “Not contest protest. Not even the US will contest it,” he said. Locsin shared Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio’s position, which runs counter to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo’s position. Panelo had said the Philippines should ne thankful to China if reports of the construction […]

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If true, Panelo says he sees nothing wrong with China building maritime center on disputed Kagitingan Reef

(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Thursday, Jan. 31, said he does not see anything wrong with China building a maritime rescue center in Fiery Cross Reef, one of the features claimed by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, if this was indeed true. Panelo agreed with Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that the center, after all, could provide relief to “everybody” in distress. “Kung alam natin na wala namang makakasira doon sa […]

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Roque: Diplomatic protest should be filed if further “militarization” of Kagitingan Reef by China proven

(Eagle News) — The Palace on Tuesday echoed Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s statement that a diplomatic protest should be filed if it is proven that China deployed soldiers to Kagitingan Reef. But Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that “when we invoke the good faith of China, it is against making further reclamations and not making further works on islands that it had already reclaimed.” He said Kagitingan was one of the islands it already reclaimed. […]

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