AO 29 heightens tensions between PH and China
By Amando Doronila
Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:56 pm | Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
President Aquino’s Administrative Order No. 29, which renames the South China Sea waters off the Philippines’ west coast the West Philippine Sea, heightened tensions between Manila and Beijing after the cancellation of the planned talks between Mr. Aquino and Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders’ summit in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sept. 8-9.
The order was signed by the President on Sept. 5; it was made public on Sept. 12 after his return from the summit, and made a shambles of the deteriorating relations between the Philippines and China.
Within days of the release of the order, a storm shaped up in China over the territorial disputes with the Philippines. The official Chinese news agency Xinhua blasted the order as indicative of the Philippines’ “political short-sightedness.” The China Daily derided it as “Manila’s name game,” and called it “a reckless decision.”
But despite the fallout from Beijing, AO 29 serves the Philippine government’s purpose of defining the parameters of its claim on parts of the South China Sea that it now declares located within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The heightening tensions ruled out a bilateral meeting between Presidents Aquino and Hu after the collapse of the arrangements for their planned talks over the contending claims on the South China Sea, in light of the fact that Hu is expected to step down from office sometime next month during the congress of the Communist Party of China. After his return from Vladivostok, Mr. Aquino said he was still hoping for “a dialogue where we can have a heart-to-heart talk and share our thoughts in total honesty and openness.” He said “that seems to be the way forward to settle all of these things.” But this is wishful thinking. Experience tells us that you cannot engage the Chinese in a “heart-to-heart talk” and get results the way you want it. The only way they can respect you is by standing up to them; otherwise, they bully you.
The Aquino administration began calling the South China Sea West Philippine Sea in March last year, after Chinese patrol ships harassed Filipino fishing boats within an area in the Spratly Islands that the Philippines claims, the Inquirer reported. According to the President, AO 29 covers only “portions of the South China Sea.” These portions embrace the Philippines’ 370-kilometer EEZ. Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panatag Shoal, is within the country’s EEZ, he said.
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