Carpio urges gov't: File case vs China over marine destruction in Escoda Shoal | ANC
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Good morning, Karen. Good morning to our viewers.
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We have been focused on Ayungin Shoal. We've done interviews on Ayungin Shoal, issues on the West Philippine Sea,
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and suddenly the Philippine Coast Guard announces that there are, what it seems to me,
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reclamation activities in Sabina Shoal or Escuada Shoal.
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What information do you have, Justice?
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Well, Escuada Shoal is very close to Reed Bank.
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That's about 100 nautical miles. It's the closest, one of the closest shoals or reefs to Reed Bank.
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And if you want to put up an outpost close to Reed Bank, it will be either Escuada Shoal or Rosal Reef,
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what is also known as Iroquois Reef.
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So, if considering that the Coast Guard has found piles of dead corals,
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and they're apparently put there together by, it's a man-made piling of corals,
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then this could be the precursor of an island building by China, again, to put up an outpost near Reed Bank.
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And if they succeed in putting up a...
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an outpost near Reed Bank, then that will be giving us more difficulty in getting the gas in Reed Bank.
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Okay. Now, Sabina Shoal or Escuada Shoal is within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines,
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and so is Mischief Reef.
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What lessons should we learn from Mischief Reef?
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Well, that's why we have to start this from the... stop this island building from the very start.
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We should send our Coast Guard there constantly,
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and I think they should stay there almost permanently to prevent Chinese maritime militia from going there
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because it looks like the maritime militia vessels are the one piling all these dead corals.
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And we should file a case now.
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The DOJ has been preparing a case against China precisely for the damage to the marine environment
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Escuada Shoal and Rosal Reef.
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We should file that to give attention to focus this illegal island building by China,
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put this on the world agenda.
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We have to also ask our allies to jointly patrol with us near Reed Bank, near Escuada Shoal and Rosal Reef
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because Rosal Reef and Sabina Shoal are the two nearest islands.
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We have to tell them where to put their geological features where China could create an artificial island to prevent us from developing the Reed Bank.
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Now, filing a case is one thing,
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but let's talk about preventing China from building an outpost.
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Can it be done justice?
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I mean, at the end of the day,
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we saw suddenly the Philippines woke up to Mischief Reef already being a complete...
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I mean, it's a complete facility
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already. It was a shock
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to the Filipino people at that point.
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prevent. We have to
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be there in Skoda
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Shoal 24 hours a day.
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Coast Guard there to patrol
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construction by China.
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Patrolling is one thing, but you've
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seen China's great tactics,
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of water cannon to Philippine vessels
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close to them, the use of
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these laser lights. What
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can patrolling do
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committed, decided,
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relentless on just building
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in what they believe to
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be their territory?
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presence there every day, I don't think they can
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put up their artificial
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station continuously our
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Coast Guard in that area, and I don't
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think they can create anything
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because we will be there.
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And the U.S. already
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said that if they use
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cannon and it results
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in the death of a Coast Guard
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or a Navy personnel of the
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Philippines, that would be a ground to invoke
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the treaty. So I think China will
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be careful this time because of
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that statement of the U.S.,
