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| Tango01 | 26 Apr 2015 3:48 p.m. PST |
…claim To The South China Sea. "The Philippines pushed Southeast Asian neighbors Sunday to take a stand against China's expanding footprint in the South China Sea, but Malaysia downplayed the urgency at a summit of the region's trade and security bloc.
China is "poised to consolidate de facto control of the South China Sea," Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario told his regional counterparts during a meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The implications are "urgent and far-reaching, going beyond the region to encompass the global community."
He called on the group to stand up to China on what is becoming the dominant issue of a two-day meeting of leaders. Beijing claims sovereignty over nearly the entire waters of the disputed South China Sea, and in recent months has been enlarging two islands it controls and constructing new islets in the potentially energy-rich waters, which are traversed by around half the world's commercial shipping…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 26 Apr 2015 4:40 p.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 26 Apr 2015 4:50 p.m. PST |
They're not "poised" to do that. They already have it. Wonder how much it'll cost to divert shipping around it, or to pay the toll for passage through the new Chinese lake? |
| David in Coffs | 12 May 2015 7:38 p.m. PST |
Japan and the Phillipean navy has recently conducted a joint exercise in SCS see link |
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