Palace: PH not conceding Scarborough Shoal rights to China

Manila - Malacañan said Thursday that the Philippines did not acknowledge its rights to the Scarborough Shawl after Chinese officials said that Beijing allowed Filipino fishermen in the area "to be sincere" It was.

In a statement asked to respond to the statement of China's foreign affairs spokesman Yu Shuang, "We do not admit, I can not answer anything in this field as we have to ask the Chinese authorities."

Concern over the new tension in the rich fishery between China and the Philippines has increased after the television report showed that the Chinese Coast Guard captured China and Filipinos were captured by Filipino fishermen. Hailei (229.65 km) The exclusive economic zone of that country (EEZ)

The Philippines complained to China about this incident, but Manila showed restraint by saying "small" compared to the overall relationship between the two Asian neighbors.

Roque said that it is important to note that Philippine fishermen can enter shallow despite this incident. And it differs from the previous government situation.

Philippine Chinese ambassador to China Zhao Jianhua said coast guards involved in this incident will be subject to disciplinary action "according to their own regulations".

Scarborough, known by the Filipino as Pantaga Shoal, is known as the Huangyan Island by the Chinese and is the place of conflict between the Philippines and China in 2012. Conflict occurred when Manila sent the largest warship to catch up with Chinese poachers.

After Manila withdrew the ship, China effectively dominated the group. Then it began to stop the Philippine fisherman from the flock

President Duterte's proposal to Beijing relaxed the tension in the area and Xi'an himself promised to permit Philippine fishermen to return to the outcrop.

But fishermen say that the arbitral tribunals supported by the United Nations in 2016 decided to use it as a traditional fishery in China and the Philippines, but China continues to control that herd.

Philippine fishermen are seeking government aid to prevent China 's Coast Guard from catching fishermen. One of them, Rommel Sehuela, said the Chinese people sometimes use water, tobacco and instant noodles sometimes in exchange for their capture, but he said that these are not enough to offset their losses Told.

Last year there was a report that a "barter" system appeared between the Philippine fisherman and the Chinese Coast Guard, but this year alone Filipinos can resolve their complaints.

In controversial waters the village is a potential outbreak and maritime experts aim to build another artificial island there to fully reinforce management over important waterways in Beijing I say there is.

In addition, China insists sovereignty on both the Spratly Spirit Islands and the Scarborough group. That action means that China believes that Scarborough Shawl (Hwang Iwashima of China) is formed naturally and is a fully owned island surrounded by all of the following seas. Such behavior (ban on fisheries beyond north latitude north and opposition to investigation and concession of oil in this area), especially on China's consideration and consideration for Scarborough Island and its rights and jurisdiction in the wider area It shows the right. .

The confrontation between Scarborough and Shawl in 2012 in China brought restrictions on the People's Republic of China to enter that Scholes. After indirectly stating that the United States does not recognize the sovereignty of any country over Scarborough Shawl and bringing the tension between the Philippines and the United States, intervention in the allies by the existing mutual defense treaty in the United States has not begun. In January 2013, the Philippines officially launched arbitration proceedings against China's claims on the territory of "9 lines" including the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shawls under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Illegal "(UNCLOS)

During the Spanish era of the Philippines, a map of 1774 was created. It was clearly named Scarborough Shoals as Panacot Shoal which is the characteristic of the sovereignty of the Spanish Philippines completely. The name of the current village was chosen by Captain Philip De Auvergne and his East Indian company, East Indian Scarborough, stayed on the rock for a while on September 12, 1784 and headed for China. When the Philippines won independence in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Scarborough group was handed over to the Philippine sovereign republic by the colonial government.