Shall Philippines return our coast guard in Panatag shoal?

It is not the people of China do not see the truth, or want to agree with the communist party is doing, they are powerless to go against their totalitarian regime and People liberation army, China doesn't has a governmnet, it only has regime make up by communist party officials. Trust me, majority of Chinese people had no love relationship with the present regime governing China that systematically stripped them of liberty and individual rights. The nature of Communism ideologue is banditry and expansionism, it is not even a secret anymore.

I strongly pity the people of china for having such a controlled government. if they see the truth they should would disagree of what the government is doing. Philippines is definitely a friendly and not an agressive nation, unfortunately China is being aggressive here and I hope the UN will find a way to restore the rift relations between China and the Philippines. am so sadden by this,

UN? under the UN rules they can only intervene if two parties agree for UN mediation. But since China does not want UN mediation then its useless to us UN as a shield. Because UN will not going to do anything unless theirs a war that affect civilian but since the island are inhabitant then that means theirs no civilian in their.

I do agree. But since China is so greedy I don't think they will going to recognize the law that they them self sign. They only respect power and money. I guess its time for the Philippines to start building our navy and our airforce also. Increase our military strength to 1 million strong AFP. In this way its not only going to make our country strong its also the mean or ways to give jobs to other filipinos.

We have no choice75 billion usd has now been allocated covering about 138 defense contracts and some had been delivered already to combat both internal and external treats. It's not aimed against the Chinese people ( i have Chinese blood and deal with very good Chinese almost every day) but more on their governments's policy and behavior in Asia, besides our upgrade is long overdue due to corruption . I think we have a lean but mean armed forces and sometimes it's not really about numbers but quality although I also believe that the reserve force should be increased ( for those of us who took advance and basic ROTC course). Soldiering for me is a profession borne from love of country and not merely economic or a way of getting a job , think it's got more to do with serving one's nation.

Sorry it's 75 billion php and not usd, sorry my mistake

Right now under the UN international court it only accept cases like this if two parties agree for the mediation. But if theirs only one country then its can't give ruling. Also the ruling is not bending. Meaning if one country reject it then UN can't do anything about it. So in short we have no choice but to go to war for our territory either we like it or not.

They can't really use the money for other things because it is reserved. Lending the money and having an interest is much better than it going to the pockets of corrupt politicians.

Worse another shoal in kalayaan island has been occupied by china. Its seems china right now is aggressive inserting its dominance in our territory. I guess its time drive them away. We just rely on diplomacy too much that we don't know how to use force.

Investing in our military to upgrade its facilities is welcome but I don't think it would be be enough to bring our capability to fight back China or go head to head with that country in an arms race. Way before this Panatag shoal stand off, it was on the news that China would be spending more or less 100 billion US dollars for it's military. So the bullying is really a part of their plan all along. I don't think we have the much money at the moment or even half that amount just for the military given our economic situation. In simple terms, we can't do it alone, ASEAN may be our best chance and of course the western countries who are also threatened by China's fast rising as one of the worlds economic power. Because if it now threatens small countries this early, what would prevent them from bullying everyone in the future?

As I said minimum credibility. Meaning to invest in defensive hardware. We don't need to have at par armed force with China. Just enough to defend our territory. And also defensive hardware like land to air missiles and land to ship missiles that is cheaper and less maintenance cost than buying long range bombers etc. If we have missiles station in palawan, mindoro and pampanga I'm sure China will have second thoughts of sending their ship in our economic zone.

I do agree. China is just too powerful. But we can also be powerful. If we only try to spend more on our military upgrades right now just to reach minimum credibility to fight back China then I guess we can. Our first move is to remove all Chinese products that we don't need. Second step is to make Asean a China's product free zone. Meaning Asean countries must not buy or support chinese product. then later on convince the world to stop investing in China.

The only why that would happen is when all communist who has nothing to do but rally each time theirs some good news from our government to be put to jail. I do believe in freedom of expression and freedom of speech but I also do believe that once you step on others also they you don't have the right for that freedom.

Blame all the previous presidents not only the last president. In time of President Cory Aquino theirs so many coup that I will say she has right not to upgrade AFP because of that. But in time of President FVR. He approved the AFP modernization and sell the lands in Bonifacio. But were is the money now? In term of President Erap. He priorities to suppress rebellion in the south and his stint is cut off because of the people power of the middle come earner. and the worse case happen in time of Gloria Macapagal arroyo and I don't think we can call her president anymore as its already been proven that she cheated in the election and its FPJ who won. And since President Erap did not resign she never actually did become the president of the Philippines.