"So we need to be on guard here," he said. Mr Trillanes said China's move warranted a diplomatic protest because the government could not ignore it.Įxperts have said that claims could be made by discovery, he said, and if China says it is the one that researched the Philippine Rise features, then it will try to find "holes" in international conventions. "We shouldn't be too accommodating (to China)," Mr Lacson said, adding that Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano should "settle this issue with China" and that the government "should pursue, not just give lip service", to the matter.
He said the public was apprehensive that since China named some features in Philippine Rise, it was "not far-fetched" that China would claim the rise as part of its territory and build artificial islands and structures there, just like what it was doing in the South China Sea. "(C)learly, (Philippine)Rise is ours," Mr Lacson told reporters. Senators JV Ejercito, Panfilo Lacson and Antonio Trillanes IV said the government should file a diplomatic protest with China. So why do they do it to others? It's a double standard," he said.
(China) prohibits both hydrographic surveys and (marine scientific research) within its EEZ without its consent. "Alternatively, the 'discoveries' are based on hydrographic surveys by (China's)navy. He said the Philippine government probably did not object to China's proposal to name the features at the time. Mr Batongbacal said the IHO had its own protocol when accepting and approving names. Meanwhile, we hope the relevant parties can be objective and responsible in viewing relevant technical work," Mr Geng Shuang, the spokesman, said. "China respects the Philippines' continental shelf rights to (Philippine)Rise. In Beijing, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that China has been participating in activities related to proposing names for undersea features "in accordance with international practice" and the rules of the IHO. He said the Philippines was not a part of the 12-member subcommittee.Ĭhina's proposal to rename undersea features in the Philippines was submitted to the subcommittee during its meetings in Brazil in October 2015 and in September 2017, he said.
The embassy is also considering sending an official notification of its objection to the chair of the Subcommittee on Undersea Feature Names of the IHO-Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, he said. Mr Roque said the Philippine Embassy in Beijing had informed him that it had raised to Chinese officials the Philippines' concerns about China's naming the Philippine Rise features. It could not be immediately determined whether the Chinese survey had permission from the Philippine government.
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