The rush passage by both houses of Congress of the new Baselines Law has trigerred a strong protest from Beijing.

Read the bill here:

http://www.senate.gov.ph/lisdata/91138292!.pdf

The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, carries the protest move as main banner story of its on-line edition.

What we have here now is the Arroyo regime confronting both China and the United States with the Daniel Smith custody wrangle still simmering!

A former undersecretary of foreign affairs told this writer just over the weekend that “what Congress has done here is an attempt to revise the Philippines’s territorial domain beyond the coverage of long existing international treaty limits.”

Those are the very limits provided in the Treaty of Paris at the turn of the previous millenium and cannot be done unilaterally by any nation,” my source said.

What have the Senate and the House of Representatives done here?

If President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo foolishly signs the revised Philippine Baselines bill into law she may put the Philippines on the threshold of a shooting war with the People’s Republic of China

Are we fully ready to assert the widened coverage of the nation’s territorial limits through force of arms with our practically non-existent Philippine Navy?

Whatever happened to the Ramos-era formula of joint stewardship of  areas where countries have overlapping claims??

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