China travel agencies 'suspend Philippine tours'

[lastlid]

"China travel agencies 'suspend Philippine tours'

Beijing accuses Manila of instigating protests against China

Most travel agencies in China have suspended tours to the Philippines amidst escalating tension in the South China Sea, Chinese state media said".

"The agencies would also ''adopt precautionary measures to ensure safety of their clients" now in the Philippines', Xinhua news agency said.

The two countries have been locked in a stand-off in disputed waters at the Scarborough Shoal since 8 April.

On Tuesday, China warned of a planned protest in Manila on Friday.

The Chinese embassy posted an advisory for Chinese citizens in the Philippine capital to stay off the streets and avoid conflict with locals".



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18015538

[tanga]

China are playing bully boy tactics here. They say they are keen to resolve the dispute but refuse to adhere to UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on Laws of the Sea and are unwilling to mediate through that medium. Feelings are running high amongst the youth of the country and a series of tit for tat cyber attacks have taken place, recently the PAGASA website was hacked and it is unfortunate timing for DOT if Chinese tourist are advised not to visit.9% of the countries arrivals are from China and this will be a major setback to increasing tourist arrivals.
The Scarborough Shoal is less than 124 miles from the Zambales coastline and well within the 200 mile territorial limit. It is at least 600 miles from China.
I was at Magalawa island last week near Palauig which is directly east of the disputed area.Local fishermen were complaining that they have been prevented from fishing the area by the Chinese navy whilst there are more than 30 Chinese fishing boats trawling in the area, carting away coral and protected species.
There is still the ongoing issue of the Spratlys to which China are also laying claim.
I predict that the area around US Embassy on Roxas blvd will be quieter as mass demonstrations break out at the Chinese embassy in Makati
This issue is really stirring up a sense of nationalism in Filipinos

[lastlid]

This issue is really stirring up a sense of nationalism in Filipinos

I see. This aint going to go away.

[grahamw48]

As if the poor Filipinos haven't got enough to put up with. :NoNo:

Maybe the Pope can help. :)

[lastlid]

"What? China now claims the Philippines as part of its territory by historic right? How would the Indonesians, who got here first in 4000-3000 BC and then in 1000 BC, feel? What about the Negritos, who preceded them by 25,000 years? Do not Chinese royal court archives mention trade with Luzon and Mindanao, so there had to be natives here ahead of them? Or were the ancient Chinese fudging trade documents to conceal smuggling, or melamine in infant formula and dog food?

China’s bold assertion was made by beauteous He Jia, news anchor for the nationally broadcast China Central Television (video grab in The STAR front page yesterday). Some say it was accidental; others, intentional. Whatever, what’s notable to the Philippines is that Ms. He looks like the lovelier Filipino radio-TV celebrity Ali Sotto. Is Chinese broadcasting aping the stylish Philippine media?

China laying claim to the Philippines was inevitable. It was beginning to look silly in the eyes of the world, mightily taking over only a part of Philippine waters, the Scarborough Shoal. That lagoon of rocks and sandbars is submerged during high tide. That a shoal, by definition, is uninhabitable shows up China’s historic claim to be farcical. Ancient Chinese may have been smart to invent gunpowder, but they couldn’t have built communities on a spit of rocks and sand 800 miles from Hong Kong, China’s nearest point. Luzon was only 120 more miles away. So China might as well take a step farther and claim the whole Philippines, to bolster its stake over Scarborough. By owning the Philippines, China need not spend millions of dollars exploring oil in the shoal. There’s proven gas at the Batasan".


http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=805876&publicationSubCategoryId=64

[lastlid]

"What? China now claims the Philippines as part of its territory by historic right? How would the Indonesians, who got here first in 4000-3000 BC and then in 1000 BC, feel? What about the Negritos, who preceded them by 25,000 years? Do not Chinese royal court archives mention trade with Luzon and Mindanao, so there had to be natives here ahead of them? Or were the ancient Chinese fudging trade documents to conceal smuggling, or melamine in infant formula and dog food?

China’s bold assertion was made by beauteous He Jia, news anchor for the nationally broadcast China Central Television (video grab in The STAR front page yesterday). Some say it was accidental; others, intentional. Whatever, what’s notable to the Philippines is that Ms. He looks like the lovelier Filipino radio-TV celebrity Ali Sotto. Is Chinese broadcasting aping the stylish Philippine media?

China laying claim to the Philippines was inevitable. It was beginning to look silly in the eyes of the world, mightily taking over only a part of Philippine waters, the Scarborough Shoal. That lagoon of rocks and sandbars is submerged during high tide. That a shoal, by definition, is uninhabitable shows up China’s historic claim to be farcical. Ancient Chinese may have been smart to invent gunpowder, but they couldn’t have built communities on a spit of rocks and sand 800 miles from Hong Kong, China’s nearest point. Luzon was only 120 more miles away. So China might as well take a step farther and claim the whole Philippines, to bolster its stake over Scarborough. By owning the Philippines, China need not spend millions of dollars exploring oil in the shoal. There’s proven gas at the Batasan".


http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=805876&publicationSubCategoryId=64

[grahamw48]

I think we should lay claim to the Falklands. :Erm:

[MarkMurata]

If you want to know how you
can get the Chinese leadership to bow down in submission, just start
using the Internet to tell the public the truth. Trust me they hate
this more than anything. And to help you out...

Do a search on "China in revolution 1911-1949 (part9/10)"

It's a video on Youtube. Watch the end of that video and the beginning
of part 10. You will see that all of a sudden about a half a million
Nationalist soldiers suddenly inexplicably joined the Communists. And
those Nationalists handed the Communists all their military equipment.

"Our equipment all came from the United States and Chiang Kai Shek,"
said Wu Xiu-quan. "There was a joke among the soldiers. They said that
Chiang was our best supplier of American weapons. That was the joke.
They said that after we win we'll give him a medal that weighs a ton
because he did such a good job for us."

You may be wondering...why the heck did a half million Nationalists
suddenly switch over to the Communists? The documentary doesn't say.
So let me tell you a little secret. America wanted the Communists to
win the war. America wanted to isolate the mainland because that would
keep China weak. And the only way America could do that was to have
the Communists win. Since America "hates" Communism the fact that
China was Communist gave America the excuse it needed to isolate
China. So far from the Communists winning a great victory, those
morons fell right into the trap the West set for it. There's a reason
why the Chinese refer to this period as the Century of Humiliation....

[CBM]

Surprisingly, Mainland Chinese tourism to the Philippines is quite significant. In 2011 China was the fourth largest source of inbound tourism to the Philippines, with 243,137 visitors. In 1Q 2012 this rose by 73% year on year.

Hong Kong was ninth with 112,106. The HK figure would have been bigger had it not been for the grandstand massacre fiasco, of course.