The Recto Bank

The Recto Bank is  well within our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and China must respect that. Just like all other islets and shoals in the area which are used for fishing by the locals shall be free of foreign encroachments and their occupations(of the Chinese) in the Mischief Reef, must be vacated at once.

Well, way in the 70"s and even now, our nil presence in the area has prompted an effect that resulted to today's occupation of the Chinese of other Reefs and Shoals.

The  unprotected claims and inactivity of our naval forces in the region has caused so much damage in recent years for the Philippines internationally.

Some islets had been occupied by the Vietnamese because our soldiers in other islands are not equipped to fight foreign aggressors.

We have in total only nine islands and claims of the thousands of islets and shoals in the EEZ for the Philippines.

The Recto Bank is one example that the Chinese has again occupied just recently. 

We were not there when these Chinese came in to build their structures, and only after so long that we had only discovered that they had occupied it.

We could have stopped them in the beginning if we are only actively patrolling 24/7 the areas we claim as ours.

-emg