South China Sea Forum

[SinoChallenger]

WPR Article | Philippines Running Out of Options in South China Sea Disputes

MANILA -- Earlier this year, the Philippines and China teetered on the brink of direct military confrontation over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, precipitating a series of high-stakes diplomatic exchanges that prevented open conflict but left the underlying dispute unresolved.

Although the episode jolted the Filipino leadership into recognizing the perils of armed brinkmanship with China, Manila’s subsequent diplomatic approach to the conflict has achieved little. After almost seven months of intensive diplomatic engagement with China and the states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), regional maritime tensions are still on the rise. Now, facing a potentially more assertive China under a new leadership, and in the absence of an effective regional approach to the ongoing territorial disputes, the Philippines seems to be running out of diplomatic options.

 

[cirr]

CCG（China Coast Guard）35003 is on active service：

 

[EastSea]

self deleted.

 

[cirr]

"MSA 21" has just been reassigned to the South China Sea:

 

[Zero_wing]

WPR Article | Philippines Running Out of Options in South China Sea Disputes

MANILA -- Earlier this year, the Philippines and China teetered on the brink of direct military confrontation over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, precipitating a series of high-stakes diplomatic exchanges that prevented open conflict but left the underlying dispute unresolved.

Although the episode jolted the Filipino leadership into recognizing the perils of armed brinkmanship with China, Manila’s subsequent diplomatic approach to the conflict has achieved little. After almost seven months of intensive diplomatic engagement with China and the states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), regional maritime tensions are still on the rise. Now, facing a potentially more assertive China under a new leadership, and in the absence of an effective regional approach to the ongoing territorial disputes, the Philippines seems to be running out of diplomatic options.

Running out or gain some result and have you taken your meds?

 

[beijingwalker]

China to Invest $1.6 Billion on Disputed Islands, Herald Reports
By Bloomberg News - 2012-12-25T02:54:41Z

China plans to spend more than $1 billion building an airport, piers and other infrastructure on islands at the center of a territorial dispute with Vietnam and the Philippines, the 21st Century Business Herald reported.

The central government approved plans to invest 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in infrastructure for areas administered by the city of Sansha, the newspaper reported today, citing Jiang Dingzhi, governor of Hainan province, which holds jurisdiction over the city. China set up Sansha in June to oversee the Paracel and Spratly islands, parts of which are also occupied or claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.

Tensions between China and its neighbors in the South China Sea have spurred concern that competing territorial claims will disrupt economic relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the group’s largest trading partner. A dispute over control of the Diaoyu, or Senkaku, islands in the East China Sea is also weighing on trade between China and Japan.

The funds for Sansha will also be spent on marine law enforcement and ocean fisheries, according to the 21st Century Herald, which is based in the southern city of Guangzhou. Construction of some facilities has already started, the newspaper reported, without giving more detail.

Vietnam Ousted

Sansha is located on Yongxing, the largest island in the Paracels, with an area of 2.1 square kilometers (0.8 square miles). China ousted Vietnam from the 30 islets and reefs that comprise the Paracels, known as Xisha in China and Hoang Sa in Vietnam, in a 1974 battle that killed 71 soldiers.

“Sansha’s immediate work is for airports, ports, piers and other important infrastructure, as well as law enforcement vessels, supply ships and other projects to be established,” Hainan Governor Jiang was quoted as saying by the newspaper. “In the long term, we need to implement a platform for Sansha’s development.”

 

[beijingwalker]

$1 billion on a small island..?what construction pojects does the government want to build there,must be made of gold..

 

[cirr]

China's Hainan Island build one thousand one hundred and eighty eight 850-tonne standard displacement steel fishing vessels：

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plus two 1500-tonne transport ships，three 3000-tonne transport ships and one 6000-tonne supply ship to go with the fishing fleet。



Oh Mighty，the South China Sea is fast becoming a fish pond。

Oh Mighty，the South China Sea is fast becoming a fish pond。

 

[terranMarine]

$1 billion on a small island..?what construction pojects does the government want to build there,must be made of gold..

Casino's made of gold?

 

[KRAIT]

$1 billion on a small island..?what construction pojects does the government want to build there,must be made of gold..

Holiday destination. Rich people like to spend money on new places with privacy after all.

 

[EastSea]

China's Hainan Island build one thousand one hundred and eighty eight 850-tonne standard displacement steel fishing vessels：

º£ÄÏ£º³ËÊÆÔì´ó´¬ Ñï·«´³É

plus two 1500-tonne transport ships，three 3000-tonne transport ships and one 6000-tonne supply ship to go with the fishing fleet。



Oh Mighty，the South China Sea is fast becoming a fish pond。

Oh Mighty，the South China Sea is fast becoming a fish pond。

Who get benefit ? The corruption group made a lobby (guan xi) for such hilarious investment can take a money first.

 

[cirr]

Who get benefit ? The corruption group made a lobby (guan xi) for such hilarious investment can take a money first.

These vessels are bigger and stronger than your tiny and pathetic gun boats。

These 850-tonne beauties of steel are gonna give you a run for your money. Not?

 

[dunhill]

Let me be clear for all Chinese on high hope and wishful thinking.

1. If you think you had all Islands been stolen from Viet Nam that will save then dream on. Cause China already has Viet Nam more than 1000 years then what? Viet Nam still take it back from time to time and piece by pieces.

 

[ahfatzia]

A satellite photo of Yongxing Island 永兴岛

Closer look

The future

 

[ChinaToday]

Let me be clear for all Chinese on high hope and wishful thinking.

1. If you think you had all Islands been stolen from Viet Nam that will save then dream on. Cause China already has Viet Nam more than 1000 years then what? Viet Nam still take it back from time to time and piece by pieces.

please come to visit our island you are welcome