SASS ROGANDO SASSOT PANALO SA PBBM MEDIA INTERVIEW! POLISIYA SA INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NAPALIWANAG!
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00:00.0
Magli-live react tayo dito sa Sit Down with the Broadcast Media interview ni President Bongbong Marcos.
00:30.0
... And the timing of what we call, we refer to as shadowing, what they do is they shadow our fishing boats. So that incident happened right after I had returned from China.
00:45.2
We have immediately used with that thing, that mechanism that I talked about, we can immediately contact the Chinese government and hopefully though our counterparts on the other side can bring to president Xi's attention this problem and we have done that.
01:03.2
But that does not preclude us from continuing to make protests and continuing to send note verbals concerning this. But this is a long process because it is something new.
01:18.2
I just hope we can come to some kind of arrangement because I cannot see the utility for the Chinese of doing that. These fishing boats are not armed, they don't pose a threat to anyone. So I think that is something that we can achieve in the near term.
01:40.2
You have been very clear and empathic since the start of your administration that you're going to continue the foreign policy doctrine of your predecessor, the friend to all, enemy to none foreign policy doctrine of non-alignment.
01:55.2
My question is related to how further you're going to possibly refine or operationalize this doctrine. Does your administration see any opportunity in, for example, deepening engagement with the non-aligned movement, especially now that superpower rivalry, especially in our zone, might be intensifying sometime in the future?
02:22.2
That was very much in response to the Cold War and the slow dismantling of the organs of the Cold War, if that's how you want to put it.
02:36.2
And that is why that non-aligned treaty was created between several nations who said that we no longer subscribe to the notion that we as a country must choose one to side with one superpower or another.
02:55.2
And that is precisely what we have undertaken. And that is exactly the position that I have taken in terms of foreign policy.
03:07.2
Although this came up again in our discussions in the conference, the question that was asked was actually thought-provoking. Will geopolitics finally kill globalization?
03:29.2
Because geopolitics is pulling people apart and all these aggravations are being pulled apart.
03:34.2
And the general conclusion is that countries realize that alliances are important. In fact, they're more than important. They're necessary.
03:47.2
Nonetheless, these alliances do not mean that we are, again, within the sphere of influence of any great power.
03:57.2
As a matter of fact, in ASEAN, we all came to the agreement that at the very least, in ASEAN, in the Asia-Pacific region, the future of the region must be decided by those in the region, not by some outside power.
04:14.2
And so I think the idea, I do not know of any formal meetings or conferences of the non-aligned nations. They used to have them. They don't have them very much anymore.
04:28.2
I don't know about that, but we are very much in the spirit of that treaty.
04:33.2
We are very much part of it in the sense that we continue to walk that very fine line between two great superpowers who are surrounding us both physically and geopolitically.
04:46.2
Mr. President, how do you intend to resolve the seeming disconnect between what gets agreed upon at your level, at the top level, and what gets implemented out at sea?
04:57.2
I know you said there is no compromise yet, but in the meantime, our fishermen are being prevented from engaging in their livelihood.
05:06.2
Well, I think the actions that are needed are really from the Chinese side, because we do not send Coast Guard boats into what we consider their waters or international waters. They stay within Philippine waters.
05:28.2
Hopefully, as I said, the reason that it was important for me, let me clarify what we talked about with President Xi.
05:39.2
It was very simple. I said we have to raise the level of discourse between the Philippines and China.
05:46.2
Now, we already have a bilateral group that's working on issues about the South China Sea.
05:52.2
Now, my proposal is that we bring that bilateral group to a higher level. Let's bring it to a ministerial level.
06:03.2
I will ask my foreign secretary to be part of it. I will ask my ambassador to China to be part of it.
06:09.2
I guarantee you that if there is any decision that needs to be made, either of those gentlemen can pick up the telephone and talk to me.
06:19.2
Within five minutes, we will have a decision. I hope that China can do the same.
06:25.2
That is what the President Xi was agreeable. I said, why not?
06:31.2
He assigned his foreign minister to take care of the details. That's what we're working on now.
06:38.2
Now, with the power structure in the People's Republic, I think that if the President Xi puts out an order that we will not do that anymore,
06:54.2
we will do something else, then I think the chain of command is fairly solid.
07:02.2
Because again, we will be able to report any violations of whatever agreement we come to.
07:09.2
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