"For whom are those search-and-rescue facilities
for?"
This was the reaction of Department of National Defense
(DND) spokesperson Dr. Peter Paul Galvez when asked to comment on the Chinese
plans to construct facilities on the artificial islands it constructed in the
disputed portion of the South China Sea .
"Is it for our ships and installations that they are
threatening to destroy?" he added.
Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua earlier said Beijing
"Regardless of what supposedly 'good' details the
Chinese leadership informs the peace-focused and rules-based international
community, they illegally and blatantly continue with their aggression as these
are mere elements of their island building militarization which needs to be
stopped and be dismantled," Galvez stressed.
The DND spokesperson said that this proposal by China is what the Philippines
He added that it become all too evident that the Chinese
leadership had no intention of honoring its commitment to the ASEAN Declaration
of Conduct in 2002 all along.
"They've said one thing and have done another. They are
simply trying to cover their tracks. This is the worst stage of all, this is
the militarization stage, and it must be stopped, otherwise, it will be the
tipping point that will plunge the entire region including the peace loving
Chinese communities into a deeper and irreversible crisis," Galvez stressed.
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