There is a direct, frank headline from Taiwan News yesterday:
Meanwhile, here’s a brilliant, well-thought article from Richard
Heydarian today in the Inquirer. He posted in his fb wall with this note:
Yes, it's blank. Duterte administration has no "independent" foreign policy, only 99% China-dependence foreign policy.
Also reposting this f rom another friend from UP, Bernard Ong:
Manila kowtows to
Beijing, cedes Exclusive Economic Zone in South China Sea
Duterte and Xi have 'informal', 'undocumented' agreement
allowing Chinese fishermen unrestricted access to Philippine fisheries
By Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2019/07/01 10:16
Presidential Spokesman Panelo has shamelessly announced this:
Verbal fishing
deal between PH, China legally binding – Panelo
By CNN Philippines Staff
Updated Jul 1, 2019 3:23:19 PM
“My longest column
yet, analysing Duterte’s “independent” foreign policy in light of the Reed Bank
incident.”
Reposting this observation from my friend, Dr. Jay Batongbacal of UP College of Law:
ANOTHER CULPABLE VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION?
The claim that an "informal" agreement
"verbally" entered into is "legally binding" contravenes
yet another provision of the Constitution.
Sec. 21 of Art. VII very clearly states that "No
treaty or international agreement shall be valid and effective unless concurred
in by at least two-thirds of all the Members of the Senate."
The only accepted exception to Art. VII, Sec. 21 is an
executive agreement, which is allowed without Senate concurrence because it
merely implements existing treaty obligations, laws or policy. But changes in
national policy requires a full-fledged treaty subject to Senate concurrence. A
purported agreement to allow China to fish in the Philippine EEZ contrary to
the 1987 Constitution and implementing laws obviously is a radical change in
national policy, and does not have any legal precedent at all. It cannot be
subject of a mere verbal agreement, even assuming that it were possible.
Thus, Sec. Panelo's claim that PRRD's verbal agreement to
allow Chinese fishing in the EEZ is legally binding cannot be anything that
another culpable violation of the Constitution, on top of the
unconstitutionality of failing to protect the marine wealth of the country in
its EEZ and failing to reserve the benefits thereof exclusively to Filipino
citizens. Instead of downplaying the magnitude of PRRD's purported agreement by
describing it as "informal" (implying it is not a treaty), describing
it as "legally binding" only makes it even worse. In the absence of
concurrence by the 2/3 majority of the Senate, no such treaty or international
agreement effectively abolishing the reservation of marine wealth to Filipino
citizens can be valid nor can it enter into force for the Philippines.
#salotpanelo
#letmeexplaintoyousoicanmakeitworse
#huwagkangtatangatanga
DU30 VS PH CONSTITUTION
👊 Elected president under
the Constitution.
👊 Swore Oath to uphold the
Constitution.
👊 Refuses to protect PH
EEZ as mandated by Constitution.
👊 Uses sham ‘nuke war’
scare to justify cowardice, inaction & pro-China treason.
👊 Called Constitutional
provision on EEZ ‘thoughtless, senseless’.
👊 Likened Constitution to
toilet paper.
Without Duterte’s ‘thoughtless, senseless toilet paper’,
there is no presidency.
Duterte is unwilling & unable to function as PH
president. I consider him China’s puppet, not Philippine president.
This is a shameless President.
Kowtowing to a communist dictatorship in Beijing.
Where rule of law is a joke, only the rule of the Communist Party matters.
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See also:
China Watch 33, US' 25% tariff on $200 B of CN exports, May 07, 2019
China Watch 34, Beijing vs HK people on extradition bill, June 11, 2019
China Watch 35, China militia sinking of PH fishing boat, June 18, 2019
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