Oh my mistake. Yep Palawan Passage is to the west of Palawan Island.

Looking at the case of Indonesia, it is possible that the superpowers will demand more international sea-lanes. They may demand the San Bernardino Strait (Between Bicol and Samar Island) to Mindoro Strait. ‘yun nga lang patibayan na lang ng pinuno yan.

J,

You are welcome. :-)

I found the map in MLQ3′s blog- http://www.quezon.ph/1955/greater-malaysia/

The plan is this; we have not relinquished our claim to Sabah even with the new baseline bill. So the sea between Sabah and Palawan is still our waters as far as we are concerned.

So this is essentially the same route we give. Basically between Palawan and Sabah and the Luzon strait which is mostly similar to what Ishmael Ahab says anyway.

Ishmael Ahab,

I looked at a map and I think Palawan passage is to the west of Palawan which I think is what you wanted anyway.

Regarding the sea lanes. The archipelagic state has the right to designate the sea-lane wherein there are no restrictions for international vessels. Indonesia, for example, designated the sea-lanes that could be used by international vessels though US and its allies are pushing its government to open more sea-lanes for their warships. In the case of the Philippines, the sea lanes that we could designate is the Babuyan Channel in the North for the East-west-east route and the Palawan passage, east of Palawan for the north-south-north route.

In the KIG, the Philippines had some advantages since we are occupying the second largest island in the area (Unfortunately, Taiwan controls the largest island in the KIG) However, the Vietnamese are occupying the most number of islands/islets in the area and some these islets are nearer to Palawan than some of our occupied Islands and islets.

My bad. I was relying on memory. It was 1992 instead of 1982.

Yeah, like I said; I don’t know how they did it but I got that from here-

http://www.newsbreak.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4298&Itemid=88889066

Or maybe they would claim even my pancit and lumpiang shanghai.

Or they could all jump simultaneously and there would be an earthquake.:D

There’s that old joke that for China to go to war against, they all jst have to pee aimultabeiously for us to drown in… :)

I’m not sure China has the capability of transporting enough troops to thousands of kilometers away from the mainland. Unless they have an aircraft carrier, which as far as I know they don’t have (it is said that they plan to purchase one in 2010, but it is now doubtful given the economic difficulties).

Although we don’t have military parity with the Chinese, I think our close proximity to the islands is a tactical advantage.