Filipinos rally against Beijing regime's naked expansionism

[Satish]

12-5-2012


Filipinos Rally Against China's Claim to Shoal
By FLOYD WHALEY


MANILA — With the 1970s pop song “Kung Fu Fighting” playing in the
background, several hundred people gathered in front of a Chinese
consular office on Friday afternoon to protest an escalating
territorial dispute.


“China back off! China back off!” protesters yelled as dozens of
police officers and members of the news media surrounded the office.
An attempt to burn a Chinese flag was stopped by the police, but
generally the lively and noisy protest was peaceful.


The rally, which was organized in conjunction with similar protests by
Filipinos at Chinese embassies in other countries, was designed to
highlight what the Philippines says is an intrusion into its territory
by Chinese vessels.


The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily
briefing that the Philippines should take measures to keep the dispute
from becoming any worse, Bloomberg reported from Beijing, adding that
“the government has incited the Philippine people to protest.”


The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, meanwhile, said that the
protest was organized without any government involvement.


The dispute is centered on Scarborough Shoal, a rock outcropping about
200 kilometers, or 125 miles, off the coast of the Philippine island
of Luzon.


Both China and the Philippines see the area as their territory, and
since early April, both countries have had maritime patrol boats in
position to defend their claim.


The theme of the protest Friday was that China was bullying the
smaller and weaker Philippines.


“We know they are a world power, but world opinion is against them,”
said a Manila resident, Emmanuel Geslani, a labor recruiting agent.
“We don’t want a military confrontation. Even the Chinese don’t want
the world to see them picking on a small country.”


The Chinese government this week took a variety of actions against the
Philippines, including increasing inspections of goods coming into
China and limiting visits by Chinese tourists. Some Chinese have
speculated that the Philippines has been emboldened in the dispute by
its military alliance with the United States.


Protesters at the rally in Manila on Friday had varying opinions on
the topic.


“The Americans agree with us on this,” said Norma Solis, a 65-year-old
member of a Christian religious organization that joined the rally.
“God is more powerful than the Americans. God will touch the hearts of
the Chinese and convince them to leave our territory.”


Wilson Posadas, a 33-year-old Manila resident, was less confident of
getting help from either the United States or a higher power. “The
Americans won’t help us with this,” he said. “We are on our own.”


Lian Liang, a 28-year-old graduate student at a Manila business school
who is originally from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, said
she came to the rally to take photos and send them home to China.


She said several of her friends had canceled their plans to visit the
Philippines.


“The Chinese media is saying the Philippines is evil,” she said,
adding that she was not taking sides in the territorial issue. “I want
to tell my family in China that the Filipino people are friendly.”


Max Soriano, a leader of the left-leaning organization Akbayan, said
the Chinese government should consider Philippine initiatives to bring
the dispute to an international forum for resolution.


“I hope the Chinese will take note and agree to settle this in the
United Nations,” he said. “We can’t win a war with China.”


As Mr. Soriano spoke, the lyrics of the song “Kung Fu Fighting” could
be heard nearly drowning out his voice.


“In fact it was a little bit frightening,” the song rang out on
loudspeakers.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/world/asia/philippines-china-scarborough-shoal-island-dispute.html?_r=1&hp

[rst0]

Satish, you are the sorriest saddest stupidest filthiest ugliest
motherfucker SOB I have ever encountered that kept playing the same
old lousy tune from your broken 78 rpm record. Go get an education.
You're making a idiotic fool of yourself.

[hotac]

US-Philippine alliance deepens amid China tensions

http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html

[rst0]

[hotac]

On May 12, 2:23 pm, hotac <hochim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> US-Philippine alliance deepens amid China tensions
>

> http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensi...

http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html

[rst0]

[Satish]

On May 12, 11:46 am, hotac <hochim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 12, 2:23 pm, hotac <hochim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > US-Philippine alliance deepens amid China tensions
>

> > http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html

hotac, thanks for your posts highlighting the alarm and perturbation
in ASEAN countries caused by the Beijing CCP regime's aggressive and
expansionist policies. Please don't mind rstx - he is a running dog of
CCP imperialism doing his best to earn his bone (50 cents/post) from
the CCP dictatorship in Beijing. Unfortunatelyor fortunately, age has
caught up with rstx.


At 74, rstx has truly turned senile. He attempts to reply to a post.
But by the time he is ready to type in his reply, he can no longer
remember what he is replying to. That's when he riposte's with his
standard paragraph of inanities and profanities not just in the body
of the post but even in the title of the thread!!


rstx is much like the old senile who is so far gone that by the time
he takes off his pants in the bedroom, he has forgotten why he took
them off. So he proceeds to pee and shit in his bed!!


I found your post very informative for anyone who wants to keep
abreast of the CCP dictatorship's imperialist policies:


http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html

US-Philippine alliance deepens amid China tensions

AP


WASHINGTON (AP) — China's assertive behavior is breathing life into
America's historically tumultuous relationship with the Philippines.


With Washington turning its attention more to the Asia-Pacific region,
the U.S. and the Philippines last week held the first joint meeting of
their top diplomats and defense chiefs. The U.S. increased military
aid and resolved to help its ally on maritime security.


The steps came with the Philippines locked in a standoff with China
over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea that has
stoked passions on both sides. The U.S. is a walking a delicate
diplomatic line. It doesn't want the dispute to escalate, but it is
showing where its strategic interests lie.


The relationship between the U.S. and its former colony thrived during
the Cold War but ebbed after nationalist political forces prompted the
closure of American military bases in 1992. As the U.S. seeks to build
a stronger presence in Southeast Asia, a region it neglected during
the past decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the alliance is
assuming growing importance.


For its part, the Philippines is looking to Washington and its allies
to help equip and train the nation's bedraggled military, to put up a
show of resistance to Chinese vessels that frequently sail into waters
Manila considers to lie within its exclusive economic zone.


Ernest Bower, director of the Southeast Asia program at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, said it is very important for the
U.S. to solidify its ties with its traditional allies in the region.


"The relationship with the Philippines went south when the U.S. lost
Subic Bay (naval base) and Clark (Air Base). The hangover is wearing
off and interests are aligning again."
But for both sides, managing the new chapter in their alliance is
something of a balancing act and carries its own risks.


Nationalist sentiments still make an increased American military
presence in the Philippines a sensitive issue, and its law forbids a
foreign base on its soil. Like other Southeast Asian nations, the
Philippines does not want to alienate the region's economic
powerhouse, with which it aims to have $60 billion in two-way trade by
2016.


And the U.S. also still needs to get along with China to prevent their
strategic rivalry from spiraling into confrontation.


The 60-year-old mutual defense treaty between the U.S. and the
Philippines has the potential to put Washington in hot water in
standoffs like the one playing out at the Scarborough Shoal, where
Philippine and Chinese vessels have been facing off since April 10.
Manila appears adamant that the U.S. would be duty-bound to come to
the Philippines' assistance should a conflict break out, but the U.S.
has hedged on the issue.


The broader trend is that for the past two years the U.S. has declared
its "national interest" in freedom of navigation and peaceful
settlement of disputes in the busy South China Sea. It has expanded
its military cooperation with the Philippines into maritime security
after a decade of focusing on fighting al-Qaida-linked militants in
the country's south. And the U.S. has increased its foreign military
financing to the Philippines, which was slashed last year, to $30
million this year, double what was initially budgeted.


That, however, is little above its 2010 level, and scarcely enough to
retool the decrepit Philippine fleet. To help in that effort, the U.S.
last year supplied a 45-year-old Coast Guard cutter to the
Philippines, now a flag ship in its navy, which headed briefly to the
Scarborough Shoal at the start of the standoff. The U.S. plans to send
a second cutter to its ally this fall and is also helping the
Philippines develop its "Coast Watch" system — a network of about 20
radar stations tied to a central database in Luzon that is meant to
help the island nation monitor its whole coastline.


Whether the intensified U.S. interest will help the Philippines build
the "minimum credible defense" it aspires to have is another matter.
President Benigno Aquino has increased the defense budget, but it
remains meager compared with most of its Southeast Asian neighbors —
let alone China's spending, which is outstripped only by America's.
The Philippines says it is looking to the U.S. to provide more patrol
boats and aircraft, and according to U.S. officials, is also seeking
help from other allies such as South Korea, Japan and Australia.


Peter Chalk, a senior political analyst with Rand Corp. think tank,
said the U.S. gifting of old hardware is a mixed blessing for the
Philippines, as it is responsible for the upkeep and getting spare
parts is difficult. It also risks undermining the larger goal of
modernizing the Philippine military, which wants more up-to-date
equipment and training — although there are doubts about the
Philippines' ability to pay for it and maintain it.


"It's nice to get stuff you don't pay for, but that's not helping
defense reform and modernization which the government wants," Chalk
said.


In a sign of the possible pitfalls, the 76mm main gun on the first
cutter, the Gregorio del Pilar, suffered a glitch that the Philippines
has to repair.


More details of the deepened U.S.-Philippine security cooperation are
likely to emerge when Aquino visits the White House this summer.


Last year, the U.S. announced deployments of forces in northern
Australia and plans to dock Navy vessels in Singapore, as it rolls out
its strategic pivot toward the Asia-Pacific. There are expectations
that a planned relocation of troops from Japan could involve more
troop rotations through the Philippines as well.


http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html

[Satish]

> On May 12, 2:23 pm, hotac <hochim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > US-Philippine alliance deepens amid China tensions

> > http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html


hotac, thanks for your posts highlighting the alarm and perturbation
in ASEAN countries caused by the Beijing CCP regime's aggressive and
expansionist policies. Please don't mind rstx - he is a running dog of
CCP imperialism doing his best to earn his bone (50 cents/post) from

the CCP dictatorship in Beijing. Unfortunately or fortunately, age has

caught up with rstx.


At 74, rstx has truly turned senile. He attempts to reply to a post.
But by the time he is ready to type in his reply, he can no longer
remember what he is replying to. That's when he riposte's with his
standard paragraph of inanities and profanities not just in the body
of the post but even in the title of the thread!!


rstx is much like the old senile who is so far gone that by the time
he takes off his pants in the bedroom, he has forgotten why he took
them off. So he proceeds to pee and shit in his bed!!


I found your post very informative for anyone who wants to keep
abreast of the CCP dictatorship's imperialist policies:


http://news.yahoo.com/us-philippine-alliance-deepens-amid-china-tensions-073955930.html

US-Philippine alliance deepens amid China tensions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/world/asia/philippines-china-scarborough-shoal-island-dispute.html?_r=1&hp

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[rst0]

[rst0]

[wakalukong]

we Chinese shall take WHAT WE CHINESE want in SOUTH
CHINA sea ,
and in ASEAN ,
irrespective of What any natives of ASEAN might say ,

because we Chinese are claiming to be the NEW CHINESE NATIVE
of ASEAN ,
just like our Chinese people are claiming to be the New
Chinese natives of Tibet .

we Chinese are the New Tibetans in Tibet ,
we Chinese are the New Aseanians in ASEAN .

remember
we Chinese have 9 million Chinese in Thailand who are using
Thai names .


we Chinese have 3 million Chinese New natives of Singapore ,


we Chinese have 9 million Chinese New Natives of Malaysia .


don 't forget we Chinese now have
millions of Chinese New Natives in Indonesia , in the
Philippines ,
in Hindo- China and
in Myanmar .

> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/world/asia/philippines-china-scarbo...

[rst0]

[Mao , the HEAD of the CPC , Communist Party of China , Yellow Race Power Block]

wakalukong , my faithful Chinese servant wakalukong in ASEAN .


you have done a GOOD JOB for all our Chinese people in
ASEAN .

Your Claim
that our Chinese people in ASEAN are now New natives of
ASEAN ,
is an Ingenious Imagination .