[OPINION | Just Saying] Sabah and the West Philippine Sea are ours

'My unsolicited counsel to the President is to listen to his critics. They may be his best advisers in finding a solution to our international problems.' Opinion

Sabah and the West Philippines Sea are ours. It is the Duterte administration’s constitutional and moral duty to assert our country’s rights, honor, and dignity.

Malaysia claims that the 1878 Deed was a sale and hence confers ownership rights to the British as an assignee of BNBC. Consequently, when Malaysia was granted independence, the latter acquired Sabah by state succession. This is baseless.

Malaysia’s claim is based on a land-grab by the British Empire from an original lease contract assigned by BNBC to the same. Under international law, both cannot be the basis of ownership. That was the dispositive portion that sustained the Philippines’ legal assertions over its islands and 200-nautical mile economic zone privileges. The landmark decision significantly recognized China’s destruction of the maritime life in the disputed areas. It should have put a stop to China’s expansionist designs in Southeast Asia had the Duterte administration immediately worked hard to obtain an international consensus to pressure China to abide by the decision.

Undoubtedly, China has changed track. If it cannot beat the Philippines illegally, it will try to defeat the Philippines"legally." Now it has undertaken a patient and calculated series of seemingly conciliatory gestures where even the Philippine head of state participates.

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