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the, my name is melissa chan. thanks for joining us. there's been a lot of activity on the high seas of south east asia with the philippines and china moving around an area known as the scarborough show. b gene claims it as chinese territory and has controlled it for the past decade. back to buy coast guard ships and fishing boats in the south china sea that most security experts consider proxies of the chinese navy. manila in turn, has insisted its fishermen have the right to continue to access those waters and in recent months have backed up its warnings with action. philippine coast guard divers covered the underwater cable. no more at 300 meter floating barrier, the china place to prevent the philippine fishing vessels from accessing the scarborough show. a gesture that underscores manila is growing defiance. beijing's

claims to the prime fishing grounds. the tiny, mid ocean of crop seized by china in 2012 has become a global geopolitical flash point, trying to claim to lagoon as part of its southern territory. the philippines is stepping up efforts to protect its rights to fish and side it's exclusive economic zone. you malott scarberry show is closer to the philippines just around a 100 to a 150 miles on what it's around 500 miles from china. and so i said, why are they stopping us from entering foot play at them by monday to laugh since ferdinand marcus junior became president. last year manila has restored secure. he ties of the us, raising beijing's hackles strong ties to the philippines. provide washington with the chain of asian alliances that stretch from side korean, japan in the north to australia and the sides. scarborough show figured prominently in a case the philippines took to the permanent courts of arbitration in the hague. it

ruled in 2016, the china is claimed to most of the side china c had no basis under international law. china does not recognize the ruling. in response to the philippines action, the foreign ministry and beijing reaffirm trying his claim over the sho, pointedly, referring to it by its chinese name. oriental long island is china is inherent territory. people know what the philippines has done is nothing but a farce for its own amusement. the china will continue to safe guards at territorial sovereignty and maritime writes, which, right. i entre situated close to shipping lanes, the transport over 3 trillion dollars of annual commerce control of the show to strategic for beijing. china has backed its expansive claims by building man made military islands unable patrols, beijing's claims of strange relations with not just the fishers of the philippines, but with its other maritime neighbors like vietnam, taiwan, malaysia, china is costing it's net wide. joining us as aires i will die from the

university of the philippines, dillman and thanks for coming on the program aries, a, just to underscore, to viewers in other parts of the world. how much is up for debate? even the name south china sea, which is widely used internationally. but i understand it's not what people in the philippines call it. right. why is that as well? the buildings as not claiming the entirety of, of the south china sea, but what is only entitled to the nation by international law, primarily the united nations convention under law to see. so that's part of the south china sea. that is, uh where the philippines have solved. during pm's top in rights, we call it the west philippine see so we have this dispute on the high seas. why is china 500 miles away? claiming sea water is much closer to the philippines as well. of china,

despite be a signatory to the main international law instrument, as far as married time boundaries are concerned, which is when clause has said that they, their claim is only a something that the inherited from the comments on the party that used to be the party and in power, or at least during the time when china was still up under the communist party. they also made historical claims that china has been fishing, or at least has jurisdiction over these islands, or at least that part of the maritime see called this outside the sea for a more than centuries. but these claims, i believe, to be invalidated according to international law. when, when uh, china signs uh, on costs as well as the deadline for the filing of any,

any of the claims had passed up you a couple of decades ago. so i think what china is attempting to do is really applying to your politics here. the south china sea is not only a crucial gateway to countries in south east and northeast asia, but if you would look at the, it's a critical maritime zone for it. find that to be able to secure its national security. these particular need for feeds that the south time is east part of the series of waterways. that is surrounded by the allies of the united states, from south korea to the philippines in the south to. it's very fascinating that the international court case of the philippines brought to the united nations against china on this dispute. i wonder why is this new president of the philippines responding differently to china then deter taped? because essentially it's been the same threat. but it seems like the philippines

middle is pushing back harder now. yeah. well, i think if something is clear, is that the past 6 years in the arbutus role award with was had the, the, how, uh, favorably to the philippines to be. so it'd be china is that sinus behavior and aggression towards filipino fish for man coast guard and other entities that are in our surgery and maritime borders are the same. it's the continued bullying despite the very program. the accommodation is, and even you may call the deepest policy up or her president for the parity. so i think the new administration realized that whether we be friendly or not, even if we take time to the court. so he needs behavior has been constant. so why continue to be friendly? why continue the tree outside as a brand,

when scientists behavior is nothing uh, compared to the friendliness that the philippine government under disparity has expand it. so i think what changed really is that the reality is ation that. whatever we do in chinese, aggression in our part of the south china sea will continue. so at the end, the building government just decided to be back at or a 3rd what these hours by international law. and our board policy should be less about how the china will react to anything that we do to protect our national interests. ari's ara guy, thank you so much for joining us. thank you. the, the right livelihood award, often referred to as the alternative nobel prize, has been conferred to 3 groups this year. one of which is an activist group

fighting environmental harm in cambodia. they are called mother nature, cambodia, and have successfully stopped major projects, including the construction of a damn and the export of sand from coastal as to where he is. they operate in a tough political climate and what is essentially, in other words, here in state, this work has come at a cost with 11 of their active as jailed and dozens arrested over the years. and it's founder forced to leave the country. and we have man lease from mother nature, cambodia, joining us a 1st off. congratulations on the recognition. um 1st off, um, can you tell us about your jailed colleagues? how long are the sentences they're serving and have they since been released? yes they, they spin really just with a conspiracy, n o a and the court or the with like the conspiracy and also been like,

i choose as a floor, a fucking calf. yes. this really more like okay. can you tell us more about your campaigns, for example, there was a campaign against the construction of this hydro electric dam. what forced officials to stop? how can a small and g, o force the government to stop such a massive project? it's yes, as you know, the via has been like encourage people to come. you are used to know more about giving rise to know more about how it's ken aspect to did they only live their livelihood. so uh and done because reflect again, bit off how benefit from you know, hydro electric scan effect to didn't fit. very nice. so it's just about the information in a box from the uh, yeah,

like i mean the older generation but the now we have, i do like campaign. it's also incorrect. you know, the bug to get out with the economy raise to, to make it like to know more about how it defies through an attractive down can affect to their logical. so when they really got, oh, going to like got to con. like to understand more about the affections of the hydro electric down. so they think that it's more benefit at all of those things. all of those uh, manufacturers have gone this the l 3 and the prime they call when you, i mean kind is found to me. how are you able to continue your work given that can body is subject controls closed society. i was like motivated saying i wasn't shy school because of these just irish that those and environmental activation or so you know they,

i don't like y'all and they are there what in the university, but they were arrested just to protect the environment or to a post what happened? oh, but the environment of corruption. so i was encouraged my dad and i knew because of this sucker 5, i'm here because of the i have a reason that has been to jail. oh, for like some of our i to reese how to like stop, you know, spend their the university why? because they have been in jail and now also on the coast of florida as well. so it's, it's just, it's been really, you know, advocacy why the government just, you know, i wrote it down without any reasonable things just about the just as possible. oh, that's correction. keep something simple. yeah. hey, and lisa, thank you so much for joining us. so that's it for the

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