Obama warns China, backs Philippines

US President Barack Obama conveyed a crisp cautioning on Tuesday to China against utilizing power to resolution regional debate, as he promised "ironclad" military backing for the Philippines.

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US, PH start military exercises ahead of Obama visit

MANILA - The Philippines and the United States started Monday the first period of the Exercise Balikatan 2014 in front of the visit one week from now of US President Barack Obama.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Chinese general wants to attack Ayungin Shoal





Luo Yuan, a retired Major General of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, said in his commentary regarding the recent arrest of 11 Chinese fishermen, “We have maintained a great deal of restraint and patience. Philippines invaded our eight reefs, and is now arresting our fishermen. When are we going to fight back?”

“It is incorrect to assume that China will completely rule out military action in any event during this ‘period of strategic opportunity,” he said. “To safeguard our sovereign and territory rights, we will never hesitate to face up to any military challenge,” he added.

“Also, considering the relative military strengths of China and the Philippines, the Filipino people can judge for themselves the wisdom or otherwise of their government’s decision to take this stand against China,” Luo Yuan said implying that China has greater military capabilities than Philippines.

Luo Yuan also said that troops in the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal must be arrested, else, China has a variety of means to clear the territory and international community should understand. According to him, China should respond tooth for tooth, eye for eye, to take further measures.

China Daily: Philippines will pay an unaffordable price


“Since the Philippines has singled itself out as a determined challenger of Chinese national interests and the devoted hatchet man of foreign anti-China forces, it needs to be convinced that it has made a choice that, if it persists, means paying an unaffordable price,” said a post entitle “Facing up to troublemakers” by state runned China Daily.

China Daily also said countries in dispute with China makes them look bully, “Those in a dispute must be reasonable and act reasonably. However, that is something that Japan, the Philippines, and now Vietnam, refuse to be, hypocritically accusing China of their own faults. With malicious third parties only too willing to goad them on, they have chosen to escalate tensions and are trying to portray China as a bully.”

In a separate post the state-runned news provider told that Manila violated United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) when Philippine government seized a Chinese fishing vessel and jailed the fishermen.

China Daily said, “The coast guard of a coastal state could board and check the relevant documents of vessels fishing in the waters near its coast if they violate these laws and regulations. It could even detain the fishermen. But under no circumstances, should the fishermen (or other people on board the vessels) be subjected to corporal punishment and imprisonment.”

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Monday, May 12, 2014

China blasts Vietnam's efforts to gather support.


BEIJING - China's outside service said Vietnam's exertions to gather help over a regional debate in the South China Sea might fizzle, a day after South East Asian pioneers meeting for a local summit in Myanmar shunned censuring Beijing. 

Pressures climbed in the asset rich South China Sea a week ago after China situated a goliath oil fix in a territory likewise asserted by Vietnam. Every nation blamed the other for slamming its ships close to the questioned Paracel Islands. 

"The certainties demonstrate that Vietnam is attempting to rope in different gatherings and put weight on China, (yet) won't accomplish its points," China's outside service agent Hua Chunying told a day by day news meeting on Monday. 

"We trust that Vietnam can see the circumstances unmistakably, serenely face up to actuality, and quit badgering the Chinese operations." 

Identifying with individual pioneers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at a summit on Sunday, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Vietnam had acted with "most extreme limitation" and utilized all method for dialog to ask for China evacuate the apparatus. 

Manure said China was criticizing his nation and submitting hazardous violations. 

The dispatch issued at the end of the summit by the 10-country ASEAN gathering held no feedback of Beijing, then again. 

China a week ago reprimanded the United States for stoking pressure in the South China Sea by urging nations to participate in perilous conduct. 

Be that as it may, Hua said that media ought not buildup up the circumstances. China and ASEAN "have the capacity and determination to together keep up provincial peace and steadiness", she said. 

In a measure of Vietnam's indignation, many Vietnamese encouraged in the nation's greatest urban communities on Sunday to decry China, in uncommon dissents that looked prone to draw out the strained stand-off. 

Hua said that China "gave careful consideration" to the challenges, and had asked Vietnam to take all accessible measures to guarantee the security of Chinese natives and associations in Vietnam. 

China guarantees practically the whole South China Sea, dismissing adversary cases to parts or the majority of the oil and gas rich waters from Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei. 

China's relations with the Philippines have gotten to be progressively strained as of late because of strains over the questioned Spratly Islands. 

A week back, the Philippines seized a Chinese angling vessel and its group off Half Moon Shoal in the Spratlys. The episode happened while Philippine and U.s. powers were leading joint activities. 

Philippine police said the watercraft and its team were seized for chasing ocean turtles, which are ensured under neighborhood laws. 

On Monday, a common prosecutor documented arguments against nine of the 11 group and set safeguard at 70,000 pesos (1,600)for each of them, notwithstanding requests from Chinese representatives who went to see the anglers and requested they ought to be liberated. 

The Philippines outside service said the other staying two group parts might be discharged as they are minors. They were turned over to the social welfare division. 

Hua has depicted the Philippines' movements as unlawful, saying the watercraft and team were seized in Chinese waters. 

Manila says the Chinese pontoon was seized 60 miles (96 kilometers) off Palawan island, inside a 200-mile (320-kilometer) select monetary zone pronounced by the Philippines.