Duterte’s Actions Towards the Sea

Row Needs Rethinking

According to the recent social weather stations poll showing that four
out of five Filipinos rejected the government’s response to the dispute
toward the territory with China stands that President Rodrigo Duterte’s
policy does not correlate to the public’s position according to acting Chief
Justice Antonio Carpio on Sunday 15th of July 2018.
“The Filipino people understand the situation that . . . we have to
protect our sovereign rights and we should not allow another country to
seize them. They are expressing it in the surveys,” Carpio said in an Inquirer
interview
A poll, did from 27th to 30th of June, also showed that an
overwhelming majority of 81 percent of the Filipinos believed it was “not
right” for the government to let China’s militarization of Philippine-claimed
reefs in the Spratly archipelago.
From Carpio’s point of view, the survey’s calculations were a longed-
for development since they were released just about 2 days after the
Philippines marked its 2nd anniversary of victory over China in the
Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
In that importance, passed on two weeks after President Duterte was
elected in 2016 the court announced China’s claim to almost all of the
South China Sea invalid under international law. It was also then
discovered that China contravened the Philippines’ sovereign rights to fish
and explore for resources in the West Philippine Sea.
But rather than asking assistance from the international community to
administrate the authoritative decision, the President disregarded in
exchange for investment and aid from China.