Carpio likes to carp, but everything
normal on the South China Sea
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Carpio has been carping about the what a “disaster” it would be for the Philippines if any of the presidential candidates would upon winning withdraw the country’s case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration against China’s claims over disputed islands and sea formations. Carpio wants the issue to be raised for the candidates to address at the Comelec sponsored debates, obviously to pressure all candidates to commit to a position of pursuing the case through the next administration.
But
the case doesn’t have to be withdrawn as it will eventually gather corals over
time naturally, China will never engage the court on the issue and there’s no
way to enforce anything that it may decide. It is irrelevant. Carpio himself in
an interview with Jessica Soho on GMA said that it would take up to “three generations”
and it may not still be resolved. To that Jessica Soho innocently and wisely
reacted, “But there would be nothing left for the Philippines by that time!?”
Not
only will there be nothing left for the Philippines under those circumstances
but it’ll be losing hundreds of billions in economic benefits in engagement
with China which all other nations of Asean, including Vietnam, and the World
including the cousins of the American in the U.K. and across the Atlantic in
France, are taking advantage of even as Carpio continues his carping against
China and serious, constructive Philippine engagement with China.
First
of all, let’s look at the flurry of diplomatic and economic feathers on the cap
of China’s President Xi Jing Ping in just over a week of surprise “pow-wows”
with the numerous significant countries on the World’s geopolitical and
economic stage, consider the following developments :
President Xi meets Vietnam's National
Assembly Chairman
CCTV.com
11-06-2015 21:47 BJT…
Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung welcomed
President Xi's visit, adding that Vietnam would always remember the help China
had offered during the revolutionary and socialist construction period. He said
Vietnam looks forward to promoting a comprehensive strategic partnership of
cooperation with China, and is willing to see China play a more important role
in international affairs.
HANOI, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- The upcoming
visit of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese
President Xi Jinping to Vietnam will mark a milestone in the relations between
the two parties and the two countries, a senior official of the Communist Party
of Vietnam (CPV) has said.
Hoang Binh Quan, head of the CPV Central
Committee's Commission for External Relations, made the remarks in a recent
interview with Xinhua and other Chinese media stationed in Hanoi.
China, Singapore agree to lift ties,
upgrade FTA
English.news.cn | 2015-11-06 21:53:27 |
Editor: Song Miou
…(Xi said) the success of two existing
government-to-government projects, and the proposed third project in Chongqing
will all inject fresh momentum into bilateral ties, …. The Chongqing project
will support the Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Xi in 2013 to revive the
ancient trade routes that span Asia, Africa and Europe, and provide a
springboard to propel bilateral ties to a new level in the next 25 years, he
added…
Tan (Singapore president, Tony Keng Yam)
also said the China-Singapore FTA upgrade, once sealed, will serve as a
pathfinder for the two countries' participation in regional economic frameworks,
such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), as well as for
an upgrade of the ASEAN-China FTA…
And
then the Ma-Xi-mum success of the Xi-Ma (Taiwan president) meeting which, at
this writing on November 7, 10:57am Manila Time should be just about to begin.
We don’t know yet what will be transpiring in the talk but the meeting of the
two brothers already signals victory over the age old conflict. AT this point
the important matter for the Philippines to
ponder is this article from a professor of Taiwan National University,
SHIH CHIH-YU with a most instructive titlefor pro-American Filipinos:
“Why US is supporting Xi-Ma meeting”
By SHIH CHIH-YU (China Daily)Updated:
2015-11-06 08:02
…. A rare occasion on which Xi Jinping,
Barack Obama and Ma Ying-jeou agree is about to take place in Singapore, as the
meeting between Xi and Ma is intended to balance the growing
"independence" sentiment in Taiwan, something that is bothering all
three political leaders; …
This brings us to the key question－Why has Washington appeared more enthusiastic than expected toward
the cross-Straits meeting?...
But the real rationale behind
Washington's support of the meeting coincides with that of Beijing, namely, to
balance the growing "pro-independence" atmosphere in Taiwan. This is
prerequisite to the realization that some check on Taiwan
"independence" is wise…
This is important for Washington because
once the "pro-independence" mood gets too excited the situation could
develop to a level that Beijing can no longer tolerate. This would mean the
involvement of Washington in an unnecessary confrontation at a point not of its
own choosing. In short, the rationale for Washington to support the meeting is
to bring stability to the cross-Straits situation after those in favor of
"independence" come to power….
France and China signed an industrial
cooperation agreement on nuclear waste recycling that could be worth 20 billion
euros ($22 billion), with about half of the market for Areva SA, according to
the French government. Areva shares rose….
Three Japanese business-promotion
agencies signed a cooperation memorandum in Beijing on Monday with the China
Council…
And
the U.S. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter’s Popeye stunt on board the aircraft
carrier Theodore Roosevelt, but as I wrote in our “Frolicking on the South
China Sea” last October 28, 2015 blog, “ The frolicking of these two
navies may be a prolonged dance over the next months and
years. And it is something that Asia and ASEAN will have to get used
to in no time at all.” – HTL, 11-7-2015. See this news item:
'Hope to see you again': China warship
to U.S. destroyer after South China Sea patrol
Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-southchinasea-usa-warship-idUSKCN0SV05420151106#th5Kito244zjm2ZM.99
As soon as the guided-missile destroyer
USS Lassen breached 12-nautical-mile territorial limits around one of China's
man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea last week, a Chinese warship
shadowing its movements began demanding answers.
"'Hey, you are in Chinese waters.
What is your intention?'," it asked, as recounted to reporters on Thursday
by Commander Robert Francis, commanding officer of the Lassen….
Every day a U.S. ship is down here, we
interact with the Chinese," Francis said… at any given time,… encounters
with U.S. warships are likely to increase…
The Chinese destroyer shadowed the
Lassen for 10 days before and after its Oct. 27 patrol …. The Lassen got to
within six to seven nautical miles from the nearest Chinese land formation….
But
not all U.S.-Chinese naval interactions are tense,
especially when things are slow on the high seas.
"A few weeks ago we were talking to
one of the ships that was accompanying us, a Chinese vessel ... (We) picked up
the phone and just talked to him like, 'Hey, what are you guys doing this
Saturday? Oh, we got pizza and wings. What are you guys eating? Oh, we're doing
this. Hey, we're planning for Halloween as well'." The intent, Francis
said, is "to show them ... that we're normal sailors, just like them, have
families, just like them."
The Chinese sailors, speaking in
English, responded by talking about where they were from, their families and
places they have visited, Francis said….
"It's another day in the South
China Sea. All of it is professional," he said.
(Editing by Dean
Yates and Will Waterman/HTL)
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IMHO, if COMELEC has a GUIDELINE for
securing the biometrics, then that is the WORST:
“On election day, there will be a
computerized voters’ list. The voters’ picture, the photo of the voters’
signatures as well as their fingerprints will all be in the hard
copy,” he said.
Well said... what is the purpose of the
fingerprint hardcopy?
For hackers to digitised it again using
highres scanner (if hardcopy is highres as well) and have their own database of
biometrics at their disposal.
(why not scan the digitized handwritten
signature as well).
Foolish to create hardcopy of sensitive
data... the worst ever.
What are the penalties and/or judicial
liabilities if COMELEC violated RA10173 and Section 9. Database
Security?”
“HAVE
A GOOD DAY FRIENDS AND COMRADES” - HTL
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