Chinese are thieves from the North
Chinese ,
after claiming to be Co - Owners of Malaysia ,
now want
ALL SOUTH CHINA SA ,
after the 9 million CHINESE in Malaysia are pretending to be
New
Malaysians .
well , CHINESE knew they Chinese have successfully stolen
Singapore,
Now
THEY Chinese want more , .. more lands ,
and more islands in SE ASIA .
Chinks shall never be satisfied with their OWN GREAT
CHINA .
On May 15, 10:01 pm, rst0 <
rst0w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In a disputed reef, Philippines sees face of Chinese domination
> Scarborough Shoal, a mecca for fishermen, is claimed by both
> countries, and the fight over it and other territory in the South
> China Sea threatens to entangle the U.S.
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> Luz Farones Macario, the wife of a fisherman, now sells meat at the
> market in Masinloc, Philippines, because the Chinese declared a
> fishing ban at Scarborough Shoal. (Barbara Demick /Los Angeles Times /
> May 9, 2013)
>
> GM to build $1.3-billion Cadillac factory in China
>
> By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
> May 14, 2013, 6:43 p.m.
> MASINLOC, Philippines — The fishermen were sailing the azure waters
> off the Philippine coast when Richard Caneda saw the morning sunlight
> glinting off a vessel "bigger than the biggest ship in the Philippine
> navy."
>
> Caneda could see a red Chinese flag. The words "Chinese Maritime
> Surveillance" were written on the ship's side.
>
> The ship came close enough that Caneda could see crew members on deck
> making hand gestures as though to shoo away a fly. Caneda, who had
> moved from the fishing boat to a tiny skiff to haul in nets left out
> overnight, soon saw a large gun mounted on the ship's deck pivoting
> directly toward him. A helicopter whirred overhead.
>
> The fishermen fled, leaving their nets and catch behind.
>
> "We were scared. We were angry. We were frustrated. That is our
> livelihood," Caneda, 34, a now-unemployed father of three who lives in
> a shantytown in Masinloc, said of the November encounter.
>
> It happened near the reef known as Scarborough Shoal, 130 miles off
> the coast of the Philippines' largest island, Luzon, and barely 200
> miles from Manila, the Philippine capital. Claimed by both China and
> the Philippines, the mostly underwater reef has come to represent the
> dangers of Chinese expansionism.
>
> "Scarborough today — tomorrow the world," read banners at an anti-
> China demonstration last year in Manila.
>
> In its quest to become a maritime power and to tap potential undersea
> oil and gas reserves, China is asserting sovereignty over various
> islands, rocks and reefs dangerously close to the shores of Japan,
> South Korea, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.
>
> Beijing and Taipei, Taiwan, condemned the Philippines on Friday for
> the shooting death of an unarmed 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman in
> the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Philippine authorities
> said a coast guard ship fired on the Taiwanese vessel a day earlier in
> an area to the north of Luzon, but only in an attempt to disable the
> engine to prevent being rammed.
>
> On Wednesday, the Philippines issued an official apology in a response
> to a midnight deadline set by Taiwan, which had threatened economic
> retaliation.
>
> Along with Japan's Senkaku islands (known as Diaoyu to the Chinese),
> the Scarborough Shoal is the area's most hotly contested territory,
> the scene of dozens of too-close calls during the last year.
>
> For more than a year, Chinese ships have patrolled Scarborough Shoal,
> chasing away Philippine fisherman and maintaining what Philippine
> Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario calls "a de facto occupation."
>
> Despite pledges of neutrality from Washington, the dispute could
> easily entangle the United States, resurrecting Cold War alliances and
> putting to the test the Obama administration's so-called pivot toward
> Asia.
>
> For most of the 20th century, the U.S. Navy had its largest overseas
> base at nearby Subic Bay in the Philippines, and the Navy used to
> conduct firing exercises at Scarborough Shoal. Feeling that the
> Americans had worn out their welcome, Manila asked the Navy to leave
> in 1992. But last year, a few U.S. vessels were readmitted on a
> rotating basis, and Filipinos increasingly are expressing regret about
> the American departure.
>
> "If the Americans were still at Subic Bay, the Chinese wouldn't dare
> do this to us," Caneda said.
>
> In January, the Philippines asked a United Nations tribunal to
> determine the status of the reef. But the process could take years,
> and China has indicated it will not abide by the decision.
>
> In the meantime, the Philippines finds itself outgunned, outmaneuvered
> and outspent. The Chinese have run a rope across the mouth of a lagoon
> inside the triangular-shaped shoal, where Filipinos have fished for
> generations, and in recent weeks have declared a 15-mile fishing ban
> around the reef.
>
> The dispute has devastated the fragile economy of the fishing
> communities in coastal Luzon. The shoal used to attract so many
> fishing boats that at night with their lights shining, it looked like
> an illuminated city at sea.
>
> Fishermen say the shoal was where they went to get the biggest and
> best fish: Spanish mackerel, Pacific cod, tuna and lapu lapu, a giant
> grouper. A 25-man ship could bring back $17,000 worth of fish in a
> single trip.
>
> "The income from fishing is cut in half," said Julius Sumaling, a
> fishing boat captain who says it's not worth the gas anymore to go out
> with his ship, the San Pedro, now docked south of Masinloc, a town of
> 51,000 on the coast.
>
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