{"id":1051236,"date":"2021-11-24T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1051236"},"modified":"2021-11-24T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:58:57","slug":"philippines-pacquiao-campaign-vows-boxing-champ-will-confront-china-if-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philippines-pacquiao-campaign-vows-boxing-champ-will-confront-china-if-elected-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: Pacquiao Campaign Vows Boxing Champ Will Confront China if Elected President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphilippines-pacquiao-campaign-vows-boxing-champ-will-confront-china-if-elected-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1051236&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Philippine Sen. Manny Pacquiao would \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/news\/11\/22\/21\/pacquiao-to-assert-ph-rights-to-west-philippine-sea-in-un-atienza-says\">assert<\/a>\u201d Manila\u2019s territorial rights in the South China Sea before the United Nations (U.N.) if elected president of the Philippines in 2022, Pacquiao\u2019s vice-presidential running mate, Lito Atienza, told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManny Pacquiao would assert the Philippines\u2019 right to the West Philippine Sea before the United Nations,\u201d Atienza told the Philippine news site ABS-CBN on November 22.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe will seriously take the Philippines claims to the United Nations,\u201d the politician, who served as Manila\u2019s mayor from 1998 to 2007, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe claims and counterclaims are there. That is where we should show our decisiveness, our knowledge, or courage,\u201d the vice-presidential hopeful added.<\/p>\n<p>Atienza used the term \u201cWest Philippine Sea,\u201d which is Manila\u2019s name for the section of the South China Sea immediately west of the Philippine archipelago. The West Philippine Sea contains Manila\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/depts\/los\/convention_agreements\/texts\/unclos\/part5.htm\">EEZ<\/a>), which is a section of maritime territory in which a country holds sovereign rights to fishing, natural resource exploration, and other activities. China routinely encroaches on the Philippines\u2019 EEZ and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/18\/chinese-vessels-invade-philippines-bombard-local-boats-water-cannon\/\">ramped up<\/a> this behavior in recent months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_15717018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-671379744.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15717018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-671379744.png\" alt=\"This photo taken on April 21, 2017 shows an aerial shot of part of mischief reef in the disputed Spratly islands on April 21, 2017. Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana flew to a disputed South China Sea island on April 21, brushing off a challenge by the Chinese military while asserting Manila&#039;s territorial claim to the strategic region. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ TED ALJIBE (Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo taken on April 21, 2017, shows an aerial shot of part of mischief reef in the disputed Spratly Islands. Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana flew to a disputed South China Sea island on April 21, brushing off a challenge by the Chinese military while asserting Manila\u2019s territorial claim to the strategic region.(Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beijing illegally claims Philippine shoals and islets as its own territory by citing its \u201cnine-dash-line\u201d map, which is an imaginary outline encompassing nearly 90 percent of the South China Sea. An independent arbitral tribunal established under the&nbsp;U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/12\/philippines-wins-south-china-sea-case-against-china\">declared<\/a> the map unlawful in 2016. China rejected the ruling and continues to claim the South China Sea almost in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/09\/22\/philippines-duterte-challenges-china-at-u-n-south-china-sea-invasion-is-illegal\/\">said<\/a> Manila \u201cfirmly rejects\u201d Beijing\u2019s attempts to \u201cundermine\u201d international law by violating its EEZ and those of other nations bordering the South China Sea in September 2020 in a virtual speech delivered at the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must remain mindful of our obligation and commitment to the charter of the United Nations,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as is amplified by the 1982 Manila declaration on the peaceful settlement of international disputes, the Philippines affirms that commitment in the South China Sea in accordance with UNCLOS and the 2016 arbitral award,\u201d the president continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe award is now part of international law. Beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish, or abandon,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe firmly reject attempts to undermine it. We welcome an increasing number of states that have come in support of the award and what it stands for,\u201d Duterte added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine Sen. Manny Pacquiao would \u201cassert\u201d Manila\u2019s territorial rights in the South China Sea before the United Nations (U.N.) if elected president of the Philippines in 2022, Pacquiao\u2019s vice-presidential running &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}