Via inquirerdotnet Carpio said such agreement must be rejected since Recto Bank lies within the country’s EEZ, where fish and other resources are reserved exclusively for Filipinos. Read more:
Carpio also said China had the largest fishing fleet in the world. Filipinos, who only have wooden outrigger boats, cannot compete with its huge modern trawlers.Locsin said in a television interview on Wednesday that he was not aware of Duterte’s supposed “verbal agreement” with Xi, which was purportedly made in 2016. In any case such a deal could not be enforced because it was not documented, Carpio said.
The dispute between Carpio and Malacañang over China’s incursions into the West Philippine Sea, waters within the country’s 370-kilometer EEZ, were rekindled following the June 9 ramming and sinking of a Filipino fishing boat near Recto Bank by a Chinese trawler, which abandoned the 22 Filipino crew members in the water.
Locsin, quoting a Coast Guard report, said the Filipino fishermen may be partly to blame for not assigning a lookout and not keeping their boat lighted in the dark.“This report seems like it was ‘made in China,’” she said. “Anything and everything that the President does is unconstitutional—that is in the mind of Justice Carpio,” he said. “The moral of the story: Beware of frustrated politicians in disguise as disinterested magistrates.”
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