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The Chinese people are enraged by the offensive behavior of thePhilippines over the Huangyan Island dispute, expressing fullsupport to the efforts made by the Chinese government forsafeguarding its territorial sovereignty. In defiance of China's warning and stance of resolving disputesthrough diplomatic ways, the Philippines keeps making trouble inthe waters around Huangyan Island, China's indisputable territory. In early April, the Philippines sent a warship to harass 12 Chinesefishing vessels which sailed into the waters of Huangyan Island toshelter from bad weather. He Shixuan, a fisherman in the city of Qionghai in south China'sHainan Province, is the owner of one of the 12 Chinese fishingvessels harassed by the Filipino warship. He went back to HuangyanIsland again after the incident. He said his family has fished in waters of Huangyan Island forgenerations, and believed it always a part of China's territory.The return of his vessel to the island is largely a sign of hissupport to the government in safeguarding its sovereignty. "We have no reason to be afraid of any country, as we are fishingaround our own island, nor do we need to evacuate the waters," saidHe. According to media reports, the Philippines has notified China onits readiness to raise the issue of the sovereignty of HuangyanIsland to international arbitration. In addition, it tried to rename the island and remove the signs andmonuments related to China, and even attempted to agitate Filipinopeople to hold demonstrations against China around the world. Facing provocation from the Philippines, China has continued torequest the Philippines to immediately stop its illegal behaviorsvia diplomatic channels. Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying requested a meeting with the ChargeD'affaires of the Philippine embassy in China on Monday to lodge aserious representation over the Huangyan Island incident. It wasthe third meeting between the two sides in a month. During Monday's meeting, Fu expressed hope that the Philippine sidewill not misjudge the situation and not escalate tensions withoutconsidering the consequences. She said China is fully prepared torespond to anything the Philippine side does to escalate thesituation. Due to safety concerns over travel to the Philippines, a number ofChinese travel agencies have halted Philippines-bound package tourprograms. The Huangyan Island incident has stirred public concern in Chinawith major media outlets continuing to carry front page headlineson the issue and publish commentaries denouncing the Philippines'groundless provocative moves. "When one is driven beyond the limit of endurance he doesn't needto show patience anymore," read an ed-op carried by China'sflagship newspaper People's Daily in its overseas edition Tuesday. The paper in a Thursday commentary noted that with its surgingoverall strength, China is completely free to tackle the HuangyanIsland incident in a different way. However, the patience that China has actually shown in coping withthe incident once again demonstrates its determination to pursue apeaceful development path, its sincerity in cherishing the overallsituation regarding Sino-Philippine relations, and its will ofsafeguarding regional stability, according to the article. The Philippines should "take a proper measure of itself," and avoidgoing beyond the limit in a wrong direction, noted the article. Professor Jin Canrong, an expert in international relations fromBeijing-based Renmin University of China, said the Philippines'provocative behaviors over Huangyan Island incident were partlyrelated to a stagnant economic situation in the country. "The Philippines falsely believes that it has the exterioradvantages to provoke China and that China won't dare to resort toarmed force. That's why it has dared to pull tricks repeatedly,"Jin said. However, the Chinese army has shown its attitude. On Thursday, thePLA Daily, the official newspaper of the People's Liberation Army(PLA) of China, listed historical evidence, human activities andinternational rules that Huangyan Island is part of China'sterritory. "Anyone's attempt to take away China's sovereignty over HuangyanIsland will not be allowed by the Chinese government, the people orthe armed forces," the newspaper said in another signed articletitled "Don't Attempt to Take Away Half an Inch of China'sTerritory." Chinese Internet users have also voiced strong indignation againstthe Philippines' behaviors. China has remained restrained and is not in favor of armedconflict. In the short term, besides diplomatic efforts, China'smajor strategy is to dispatch surveillance and fisheryadministration ships. "Such a practice not only reflects that China considers theHuangyan Island issue as an internal affair and conveys China'snot-to-waver attitude toward territory and sovereignty problems,but also shows its wish of not resorting to force of arms toresolve the issue," said Tong Xiaoling, Chinese ambassador to theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations. However, on the other side, the Philippine authorities tried to usedomestic sentiment as a weapon against China. Chinese foreignministry spokesman Hong Lei said Wednesday that the Philippines hadmotivated the Philippine public and its citizens living overseas tostage demonstrations against China, which have aroused strongresponses and concern among Chinese people at home and abroad. "We hope the Philippines will not further damage bilateralrelations," said the spokesman. Jin Canrong said that such behaviors by the Philippines would nothelp resolve the problem, and the Chinese government would continueto persuade the Philippine side to change its mind. "If the Philippines continue to go its own way and infringesChina's substantial interests overseas, the consequence will bevery severe," said Jin. Zheng Yongnian, director of East Asian Institute of the NationalUniversity of Singapore, told Xinhua that China's inherentownership of Huangyan Island was supported by historical evidenceand was also indisputable in law. "Although China pursues a foreign policy of building an amicable,secure and prosperous neighborhood with its neighbors, China shouldintegrate all kinds of resources to achieve its diplomaticobjective and make no compromise on issues concerning its coreinterests if the Philippines blindly make provocation," Zheng said. I am an expert from yaisu.com, while we provides the quality product, such as 3D Cinema System Manufacturer , China 5D Cinema, 3D Theater System,and more.
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