VOLUME XII NO. 12 JUNE 16-30, 2014 WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA
The Newspaper
SUMMER IN JUNE. These
kids enjoy a fun day at a beach resort in the Philippines, unmindful of the heat of the sun. Although rains have started to fall in many parts of the country to usher in the wet season, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PagAsa) said summer-like heat will be back for a few days.
PH to push ASEAN freeze (Photo by adobotalkph.com)
on China construction Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said he will propose that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations call for a moratorium — a move that China is
likely to ignore or dismiss. “I think we would use the international community to step up and to say that we need to manage the tensions in the South China Sea before it gets out of hand,” del Rosario said. China began building a school on the largest island in the disputed Paracel chain to serve the children of military personnel and others on Saturday, two years after it established a city there to administer hundreds of thousands of square kilometers (miles) of water where it wants to strengthen its control over potentially oil-rich
islands that are also claimed by other Asian nations. The island, known as Yongxing Island and Woody Island, is 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of China’s southernmost province. Vietnam also claims the Paracel chain. Del Rosario told ABS-CBN News that China is accelerating its “expansion agenda” in the South China Sea to get it completed before ASEAN countries and China draw up a code of conduct that sets rules to prevent incidents in the South China Sea.
He said a suggestion from Danny Russel, the U.S. top diplomat in East Asia, for a freeze in activities which escalate tensions in the area while a code of conduct is being worked out is “a reasonable approach” and one “I would like to initiate.” When China created Sansha city on Yongxing Island in July 2012, the outpost had a post office, bank, supermarket, hospital and a population of about 1,000.
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EIJING (June 16) — The Philippines said Monday it would propose a moratorium on construction in the South China Sea, two days after China began building a school on a rugged outpost it created to strengthen its claims to disputed waters.
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seeks dominance in the South China Sea and swiftly grows its military. “[US allies] are calling for help, and nobody’s picking up the phone,” Ryan said in a speech in Washington last week. “That’s the issue. Our friends think we’re adrift, and our rivals think we’re sinking. Our credibility is at risk, and with it our security.” In his recent visit to the Phil
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MANILA (JUNE 16)— A top Republican official scored the Obama administration’s seemingly weak “rebalancing” to Asia Pacific and feeble intervention in the world stage in failing to assure allies amid escalating sea disputes. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who is seeking to become the party’s top bet for president in 2016, said that America’s regional allies including the Philippines are “anxious” while the US is “not reassuring them” as China
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