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Excerpts for today's column: "Duterte rectified Aquino 3rd's colossal blunder"
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THE Chinese Embassy the other day confirmed that the People's Republic of China and former president Rodrigo Duterte agreed on a "temporary special arrangement" to allow small-scale fishing around the disputed Spratly Islands, but restricted access for military, coast guard and other official planes and ships to the 12-nautical-mile limit of its occupied island's territorial waters.
This agreement rectifies, at least to some extent, the past Benigno Aquino III regime's loss of Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Island to the Chinese) in 2012.
The agreement is also a template for peace in the disputed islands and reefs in the Spratlys archipelago. It shows how stupid and leading-nowhere is the incumbent administration's belligerent "what-is-ours-is-ours" policy toward China. Vietnam informally has had a similar agreement for years.
The de facto agreement puts aside the issue of what country legitimately controls a particular feature in the Spratlys but allows fishermen from a claimant country to fish within the other claimant nation's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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THE Chinese Embassy the other day confirmed that the People's Republic of China and former president Rodrigo Duterte agreed on a "temporary special arrangement" to allow small-scale fishing around the disputed Spratly Islands, but restricted access for military, coast guard and other official planes and ships to the 12-nautical-mile limit of its occupied island's territorial waters.
This agreement rectifies, at least to some extent, the past Benigno Aquino III regime's loss of Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Island to the Chinese) in 2012.
The agreement is also a template for peace in the disputed islands and reefs in the Spratlys archipelago. It shows how stupid and leading-nowhere is the incumbent administration's belligerent "what-is-ours-is-ours" policy toward China. Vietnam informally has had a similar agreement for years.
The de facto agreement puts aside the issue of what country legitimately controls a particular feature in the Spratlys but allows fishermen from a claimant country to fish within the other claimant nation's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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