by Roy Mabasa If the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) gave the whole picture of what is happening in the disputed areas in the South China Sea, all claimant countries would be protesting against one another, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said over the weekend. Cayetano said the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of CSIS, reported recently that China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, particularly on Fiery Cross (Kagitingan, to the Philippines), Mischief (Panganiban), and Subi (Zamora) Reefs in the West Philippine Sea, about 230 miles southwest of Palawan and therefore well within the Philippines’ 300-mile Exclusive Economic Zone. This latest CSIS report has prompted Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to call on the Philippine government to protest China’s moves. Cayetano, however, said the CSIS report should be “seasoned” – taken with a grain of salt – to adjust for certain biases. “CSIS is a very good organization – their transparency program,” he said, “but they are an American think tank, they are for American interests, not necessarily Filipino interest. Sometimes they go into Filipino interests; sometimes not.” Cayetano said CSIS is… Read full this story
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