{"id":977474,"date":"2021-11-06T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=977474"},"modified":"2021-11-06T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:44:33","slug":"manny-pacquiao-we-should-not-allow-china-to-bully-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manny-pacquiao-we-should-not-allow-china-to-bully-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao: We Should Not Allow China to &#039;Bully&#039; the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmanny-pacquiao-we-should-not-allow-china-to-bully-the-philippines%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=977474&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_21272833965497-e1636218634736-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Philippine senator and retired boxing legend Manny Pacquiao vowed Thursday to ensure that China does not \u201cabuse\u201d or \u201cbully\u201d the Philippines if he is elected president of the country next year, the <em>Philippine Star<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2021\/11\/05\/2139063\/pacquiao-no-bullying-south-china-sea\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must protect our country and fight for our rights. We must always look after the best interest of our people,\u201d Sen. Pacquiao told reporters during a regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Manila on November 4.<\/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>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean we will allow them to belittle our country. We don\u2019t need to fight against anybody. We must be friends with them also. But we should not allow them to abuse us,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet us remember this line in our national anthem: \u2018to die for you (our country).\u2019 So, we should be willing to fight for our country,\u201d the Philippine public servant advised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not allow others to bully us. Like me, I did not allow my bigger opponents to bully me, as you have seen in my boxing career,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Pacquiao added that \u201cFilipinos don\u2019t have to choose between two superpowers \u2013 China and the U.S.,\u201d according to the <em>Philippine Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/09\/20\/philippines-manny-pacquiao-will-run-for-president-in-2022\/\">announced<\/a> his candidacy for the 2022 Philippine presidential election in late September \u2014 referred to China\u2019s encroachment on Philippine maritime territory in the South China Sea, which Beijing illegally claims almost in its entirety. The&nbsp;hotly-contested body of water is surrounded by several southeast Asian nations, such as the Philippines, who rightfully lay claim to sections of the sea immediately surrounding their respective land borders. China has illegally explored resources within and built military outposts upon the Philippines\u2019 sovereign territory within the South China Sea for years, but has ramped up such belligerent actions in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, on March 7, the Philippine Coast Guard spotted 220 Chinese fishing vessels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/03\/22\/philippines-urges-china-remove-hundreds-fishing-boats-philippine-reef\/\">moored<\/a> off the coast of Julian Felipe Reef, which forms part of the Philippines\u2019 Spratly island chain. The Chinese fleet\u2019s presence directly violated the Philippines\u2019 maritime sovereignty, as Julian Felipe reef and its waters are located within Manila\u2019s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). An EEZ is an area in which a country retains exclusive rights to fish and explore natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Manila filed a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing to recall the vessels, but China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/04\/21\/philippines-deploys-ships-aircraft-south-china-sea-amid-china-threat\/\">refused<\/a> to heed the request. China\u2019s foreign ministry responded to the Philippines\u2019 formal complaint by illegally claiming that Beijing holds sovereign rights over Julian Felipe Reef. While China\u2019s massive fishing fleet eventually dispersed from the reef\u2019s waters, the Philippines said it suspected many of the fishing boats loitered within the boundaries of Manila\u2019s EEZ for days or weeks afterward. The Philippine Armed Forces said it feared some of the vessels may have been manned by Chinese militia members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine senator and retired boxing legend Manny Pacquiao vowed Thursday to ensure that China does not \u201cabuse\u201d or \u201cbully\u201d the Philippines if he is elected president of the country next &#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-977474","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\/977474","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=977474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977474\/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=977474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}