Chinese warship chases Kalayaan town boat carrying mayor-elect

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By Jaime Laude (philstar.com)

Updated May 17, 2013 - 5:16pm

MANILA, Philippines - A Chinese warship chased and tailed, in a provocative manner, the utility boat of Kalayaan island town with 147 civilian passengers, including the group of re-elected Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon, while sailing back to Palawan from Pag-Asa Island in the hotly-contested Spratly region.

Bito-onon said the Chinese warship coming from the east side area of Ayungin Reef, used its powerful floodlights while chasing and tailing M/T Queen Seagull early Thursday.

"The Chinese warship was only 50 meters away from our own boat," Bito-onon said, adding that the incident started when M/T Queen Seagull, that left Pag-Asa Island Wednesday morning, was passing by the Philippine-occupied Ayungin Reef at past midnight.

A grounded Philippine Navy (PN) transport ship, BRP Sierra Madre, is now being used as a Naval detachment by the Western Command (Wescom) to house Filipino troops on forward deployment in Ayungin.

Several Chinese warships and surveillance ships were monitored to have taken up position in the area for several days now as part of China’s aggressive move in laying its territorial claim to almost the entire South China Sea.

Bito-onon said the Chinese warship only stopped tailing them when their boat was already navigating around the Half Moon Shoal, an area where a Chinese gunboat ran aground last year.

“For almost an hour, the Chinese warship tailed our boat,” Bito-onon said in a phone interview shortly after the docking of M/T Seagull at Buliluyan Port in Palawan’s southern town of Bataraza.

Bito-onon is heading back to Puerto Princesa City after winning the three-cornered mayoralty contest in Kalayaan town in the Spratlys region during the conduct of the May 13 mid-term national and local elections.

Out of the total number of registered voters in the island town, Bito-onon got 108 votes, while his closest rival, businessman Noel Osorio got 69 and retired military man and former Kalayaan Vice Mayor Rosendo Mantes, got 46 votes.

The conduct election in Kalayaan has been considered as the fastest electoral process in the country’s history. Voting started in the island at about 7 a.m. and in a matter of six hours the electoral process was completed, with Bito-onon emerging as a runaway winner.

“Aside from the PCOS result, we also conducted a parallel manual count. The election in the island is the most peaceful,” Bito-onon said.

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[Psyops]

love it. Let the little Pinoys cry about it. Next time we should sink every Pinoy ship.

 

[Fsjal]

This is a message to Aquino that we (Filipinos) are defenseless and that our navy needs fixing. Anyway, what warship was it?

 

[Wright]

Why is mainland China so angry. It was a Taiwanese that was killed.

 

[Fsjal]

love it. Let the little Pinoys cry about it. Next time we should sink every Pinoy ship.

booh hoo

Anyway, why sink every Pinoy ships. Just make things worse. Anyway, leave the ships to sink on their own

Why is mainland China so angry. It was a Taiwanese that was killed.

Aside from politics, this is more of a culture thing

 

[Enemy]

This is a message to Aquino that we (Filipinos) are defenseless and that our navy needs fixing. Anyway, what warship was it?

As one well wisher, I would suggest the Filipinos to focus more on its domestic affairs, develop its economy so that Filipinos can get opportunity to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so that unfortunate Filipino teenage girls do not need to dance nude in front of drunk foreigners in the night clubs, so that they can earn respect from the tourists who visit Philippines.

What will you do with the water when your women have to dance nude to feed themselves or go abroad to work as maids?

 

[Fsjal]

As one well wisher, I would suggest the Filipinos to focus more on its domestic affairs, develop its economy so that Filipinos can get opportunity to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, so that unfortunate Filipino teenage girls do not need to dance nude in front of drunk foreigners in the night clubs, so that they can earn respect from the tourists who visit Philippines.

What will you do with the water when your women have to dance nude to feed themselves or go abroad to work as maids?

You seem right. My country needs to catch up compare to other Asian countries. Looks like the water will be open for another 20 years

 

[HongWu]

Why is mainland China so angry. It was a Taiwanese that was killed.

If we were angry Philippines would need to hold another election

 

[itaskol]

Why is mainland China so angry. It was a Taiwanese that was killed.

because we consider taiwan as our brother. it does not matter what the taiwanese thinking on us.

 

[armchairPrivate]

Good Job China.

I want those Luzon mangoes, whether they grown on trees or on women.

Juicy sweet Luzon mangoes!!!!

 

[Enemy]

Good Job China.

I want those Luzon mangoes, whether they grown on trees or on women.

Juicy sweet Luzon mangoes!!!!

Limit watching ****.

 

[armchairPrivate]

^^^^

You can get it up, so who is talking...

 

[Martian2]

Why is mainland China so angry. It was a Taiwanese that was killed.

Mainland China considers Taiwan a wayward province. Under the "One China" policy, 99.9% of the countries (by population) in the world agree.

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"One China" policy

The One China situation of Mainland China and Taiwan must be looked at in the proper historical and current world context. As former President Jiang Zemin said to President Bill Clinton, Mainland China views Taiwan as being analogous to the American Civil War. For fifty years after the civil war in 1949, Taiwan had always unanimously agreed that the Chinese Civil War was unfinished. For decades, the KMT plotted to retake Mainland China by military force.

However, in the last ten years, the bad DPP party decided to push for Taiwanese independence. You cannot just walk away from a fifty-year civil war and unilaterally declare that it is over. Just like the American Civil War, secession is not recognized unless the whole country agrees to it. Secession is illegal. Similarly, Taiwan may not secede from China. The Chinese Civil War is unfinished.

In 1971, Taiwan was ejected from the U.N., because the world only recognizes one legitimate seat at the U.N. for China. The U.N. and the world agree with Mainland China that it is the sole representative of China and Taiwan. Hence, the consistent pledges of adherence to the "One China" principle by every major country in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nation...Resolution_2758

"United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 of 25 October 1971 recognized the representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as "the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations" and expelled the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek "from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations".[1]"

U.S. reaffirms commitment to one-China policy - People's Daily Online

"U.S. reaffirms commitment to one-China policy
08:11, March 30, 2010

The United States on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to the one-China policy, saying that it' s a commitment that should be the bedrock of the foundation of its relationship with China.

"The U.S. position on one-China policy is unchanged," Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said at a briefing at the Foreign Press Center in downtown Washington D.C.."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/21/...in1426114.shtml

"Mar 21, 2006 ... Russia, China Pledge Closer Ties ... "Russia will continue the policy supporting 'one China' declared by the Chinese government ... and ..."

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_...n/er/111567.pdf

"Nov 30, 2009 ... The EU reaffirmed its commitment to one China policy and ... follow-up EU-China NZEC project, and the pledge by the European Commission ..."

http://nigeria2.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/Chi...0204389659.html

"Feb 16, 2007 ... China, Japan pledge to strengthen defense exchanges ... He noted that the Japanese government has always supported the one-China policy. ..."

http://www.twocircles.net/2008jan14/india_...ooperation.html

"Jan 14, 2008 ... India, China Pledge To Promote Nuclear Cooperation ... New Delhi declared its adherence to "one China" policy and Beijing supported India's ..."

 

[Cyberian]

Lol. This is hilarious.

The mayor-elect and his people were probably frightened to death. I'm assuming he won't be pulling anymore such stunts to win a few votes.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

China letting the world know not to mess with Taiwanese.