PCG, ipinaliwanag ang posibleng epekto ng reclamation sa Escoda Shoal | ABS-CBN News
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Ang tanong kasi ng karamihang mga kababayan natin is,
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since nag-deploy tayo ng Coast Guard dito sa Skoda Shoal,
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ano na ba ang naging effect nito?
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The mere fact that the Philippine Coast Guard vessel
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deterred the People's Republic of China
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in continuing this small-scale reclamation,
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I think we have become very effective in doing this.
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Since day one, nung nag-deploy tayo ng barco dito,
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ang ginawa na ng mga divers natin is,
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we measured all those areas that are suspected to be subjected for small-scale reclamation.
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And every once in a while, sinusukat naman natin uli ito.
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And yet, nakita natin na wala namang paglago or paglaki ng total area nito.
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Ibig sabihin, the Chinese government was prevented
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in continuing this small-scale reclamation.
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So, it is worth noting that we have become very successful
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In preventing China from continuing the small-scale reclamation.
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Now, we are seeing more Chinese reclamation activities nearer to the Philippines.
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What do you think is the danger to the national security to the Philippines?
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And also, are we going to deploy longer period in South China Sea for the PCG?
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Well, when you say more number of small-scale reclamation,
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it appears you're mentioning that there are other in the Milos areas, no?
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But let me first clarify, there's only Sandy Cays and Skoda Shoal.
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So, right now, we have only monitored and proven that there is really an ongoing dumping of dead corals,
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So, in those two areas.
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Second, your question is,
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how are we going to prevent them, the People's Republic of China, from doing this?
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Of course, our transparency initiative is our way to expose the Chinese illegal actions in the West Philippine Sea.
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The mere fact that more countries now are becoming more aware of the blatant disregard of the People's Republic of China
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in harming the marine environment, I think that's already creating so much impact
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to condemn the...
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this kind of illegal action of China.
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Secondly, on the level of our deployment, of course, I already mentioned this,
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that the Commandant, Admiral Gavan, has expressed his commitment that in those instances
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that we can be able to monitor these kind of activities,
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the Coast Guard will be deploying our large vessels for us to maintain prolonged presence.
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Now, the third question is, what is the danger?
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What is the danger?
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What is the danger?
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What is the danger of...
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Third question is, what is the danger of this small-scale reclamation?
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You know, Sabina Shoal, or it's called the Shoal, is very close from Palawan Province.
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Secondly, this is the rendezvous point of the Philippine Coast Guard.
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And the Armed Forces of the Philippines, whenever we do the resupply mission.
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So try to imagine, the Chinese have already established a naval base to the Mischief Reef.
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And then, in between Mischief Reef and Sabina Shoal, is already a Yunin Shoal.
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If the Chinese will be very successful in carrying out this kind of reclamation
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and then converting this once again to another naval base or something,
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it will be very difficult for the Armed Forces of the Philippines,
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and the Philippine Coast Guard, to do the resupply mission.
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Because they have already encircled the entire Yunin Shoal,
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if ever they're going to be successful in Sabina Shoal.
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That's what I'm saying is that the Commandant for the Philippine Coast Guard
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has to make sure that we're not going to allow China
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from carrying out a successful reclamation in Sabina Shoal.
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And then, the Chinese Embassy was asked about this,
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about their presence of their vessels in Sabina Shoal.
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But they did not confirm nor deny that their vessels are in Sabina Shoal.
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Why do you think so?
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That in China, they're shrugging off these questions
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or they really didn't confirm on this one.
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Well, actually, I saw the report from Joseph Morong.
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What he showed there is a smiley of the Chinese Embassy saying,
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Well, I wouldn't choose I think, no?
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But I would say the PCG confirms that the Chinese Coast Guard,
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the Chinese Maritime Militia, the Chinese Research Vessels,
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and the Chinese PLA Navy Vessels are there.
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I won't say I think because we have the photos,
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we have the videos to show to the international community
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that all of these maritime forces
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are intruding our own exclusive economic zone
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and that they are carrying out illegal research whatsoever
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and that is a violation of the international law.
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This is perhaps the reason why our good friend from the Chinese Embassy
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is not that confident to say and to confirm that that's their vessel.
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But again, let me stress this fact.
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It is not that I think that
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these are their vessels.
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We have photos and videos to prove that.
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And they should be money enough to accept
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that they have really deployed and intruded our own waters
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because for so many number of years, they have been doing that, right?
