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In a three-paragraph essay, defend why philippines has the full right of the west Philippine Sea?
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In a three-paragraph essay, defend why philippines has the full right of the west Philippine Sea?
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Why philippines has the full right of the west Philippine Sea?
One of the country's greatest challenges today is how we can protect and maintain our sovereign rights in the Western Philippine Exclusive Economic Area (EEZ) (WPS). The maritime region is larger than the entire Philippine area and is rich in fish, oil, gas and other natural resources for this enormous maritime area.
China has shown the world that could be correct. Ominously, China claimed 80% of our EEZ in the WPS, not just the Mischief Reef. Mischief Reef was obviously neither the first nor the last geological feature China would take from the Philippines.
China has seized a submerged atoll within the EEZ of the Philippines, WPS, Mischief Reef from the Philippines. Then I was President Fidel Ramos' Chief Presidential Legal Adviser. The Philippines had been completely unprotected. We couldn't take Mischief Reef back from the military. The PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty was not invoked because of the fact that Mischief Reef was out of the Philippines territory. We were unable to go to a UNCLOS court because at that time China had not ratified UNCLOS. The event left me with a deep scar – a powerful state could just capture what legally belonged to a weaker state and there was no force on earth capable of correcting such a mistake.