The Philippines plans to contest China’s naming of five features in the Philippine Rise, commonly known as Benham Rise, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday.
Floating “sovereign markers” will be placed in shallow portions of the Philippine Rise to assert the country’s sovereignty over the 13-million-hectare undersea plateau before Independence Day on June 12.
It is within the Philippines’ “national interest” to encourage both Filipino and foreign marine scientific researches (MSRs) in the maritime domain, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said Monday.
The Philippines has given “too much, too early and too soon” in seeking rapprochement with China and may end up with the short end of the stick, a maritime law expert warned on Saturday.
Senator Bam Aquino lamented on Monday how Filipino scientists appeared to have been sidelined during China’s marine scientific researches (MSRs) at the Philippine Rise (formerly Benham Rise) last January.
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