I WOULDN'T really have bothered with UP Professor Jay Batongbacal's little-read post on social media, which, disgracefully for an academic, hurled cheap ad hominems against me. But so far, his has been the only reply to my columns that point out that the Maritime Zones Act, signed by President Marcos Jr.
I WOULDN'T really have bothered with UP Professor Jay Batongbacal's little-read post on social media, which, disgracefully for an academic, hurled cheap ad hominems against me. But so far, his has been the only reply to my columns that point out that the Maritime Zones Act , signed by President Marcos Jr., has given up the Kalayaan Island Group, which, ironically, his father annexed from the Spratlys and made part of our territory in 1978, through Presidential Decree 1596.
'PD 1596, enacted in 1978, 16 years before the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea took effect, declared that the area within the Spratlys, which it defined with geographical coordinates, and not just the land features there, are subject to Philippine sovereignty. That primer, which Batongbacal co-authored, echoed PD 1596 and defined the KIG as that 'group of over fifty features and their surrounding waters' belonging to the Philippines.
Lies And Intellectual Dishonesty Over Maritime Zones Act
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