FUN RHYME ON THE SOUTH CHINA SEA ISSUE OR IS IT THE WEST PHILIPPINE SEA?

I OFFER MY ONE CENT’S WORTH OF AN OPINION…

RESPECTING A CRITICAL ISSUE THAT IS ROCKING OUR NATION;

I WOULD NOT WANT TO OFFER A TEN CENTS’ WORTH – –

AS OTHERS MIGHT DEEM IT AS JUST DROSS AND USELESS DEARTH;

BUT IT’S ONE CENT OF A KEN, WHICH COULD FEED YOUR MIND AND SOOTHE YOUR HEART,

THAT COULD DIMINISH THE ANXIETY AND COULD PERHAPS REDUCE THE FEELING OF BEING HURT!

‘TIS THE CLAIM WHICH WAS LODGED BY PNOY…

THAT WAS IN 2013, PERHAPS PNOY’S GIFT TO THE COUNTRY’S HOI POLLOI;

IT SURELY WOULD BE A BIG HELP TO OUR NATION’S FISHERFOLK – –

BUT WE CANNOT RELY ANYMORE UNTO OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS LIKE THE P.E.F.T.O.K.;

FOR IT’S COURTING WAR INDEED, AND A WAR THAT WILL BE WAGED VIA A NUCLEAR BUTTON,

EXCEPT THAT WE HAVEN’T GONE NUCLEAR AND WE DON’T HAVE A BUTTON, PERHAPS JUST A BATON!

AN ARBITRAL AWARD WAS ISSUED IN TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN…

FAVORING MUCH THE PHILIPPINES, AND TOTALLY DESTROYING CHINA’S NINE-DASH LINE SCHEME;

BUT THE ARBITRAL AWARD WAS REJECTED BY CHINA, SAYING: “TWAS A FARCE…”, IN A SEEMING SCREAM – –

PERHAPS WE OUGHT TO SEND PREXY XI A GIFT, COULD BE A GALLON OF MAGNOLIA ICE CREAM,

TO COOL DOWN ANGERED NERVES – AND SHOOT DOWN A BAD DREAM!

AFTER THE SINO-FRENCH WAR IN 1885, CHINA SIGNED THE TREATY OF TIENTSIN…

‘TWAS CO-SIGNED BY CHINA AND FRANCE, THE FRENCH COLONIALISTS DID SOME RENOUNCING;

INDEED, FRANCE RENOUNCED IT’S SUZERAINTY OVER VIETNAM – –

FOLLOWING THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN IN WW2, THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA ANNOUNCED;

CLAIMING THE ENTIRE PARACELS, PRATAS AND THE SPRATLYS WITHIN ITS TERRITORIAL BOUNDS,

AFTER THE 1945 POTSDAM DECLARATION, SANS ANY CLARIFICATION, CHINA KEPT  BARKING ITS CLAIMS AS THOUGH A CHORUS OF A PACK OF HOUNDS!

ON JUNE 26, 1887 CHINA’S QING DYNASTY SIGNED THE CONVENTION RELATING TO THE DELIMITATION OF CHINA’S FRONTIER…

BUT NO CLARIFICATION WAS EVER MADE AS TO HOW THE TIERS WOULD SHOW ON EACH AND EVERY PIER;

THE ISLANDS INVOLVED GOT MILITA-

RIZED WITH SO MANY INFRA, YEAR IN AND EVERY YEAR – –

FOR CHINA WANTS TO ASSERT ITS CLAIM, AS IT WANTS TO MAKE ITS POSITION CLEAR;

ASSERTIVE BUT NOT AGGRESSIVE, AS CHINA TINGED THE ARBITRAL AWARD WITH A “FAKE” SMEAR,

FOR ARBITRATION IN ESSE IS VIA MUTUAL CONSENT, BUT IN THIS CASE CHINA NEITHER SAID “YES”, NOR DID THEIR BRIEF APPEAR!

WITH THIS CONTINUING MILITARIZATION OF THOSE ISLES BY CHINA, WE’LL HAVE TO ACT LIKE DOVES…

WE  NEED TO CONTINUOUSLY PRAY AND SUPPLICATE OUR LORD GOD, IN UNENDING PRAYERS IN TROVES;

FOR A HAWKISH BEHAVIOUR AND A BELLICOSE POSE – –

COULD IGNITE A WAR AND WE’LL ALL BE ERASED, OF COURSE;

LET’S REDO THE NEGOTIATION AND COME UP WITH A COMPROMISE, OF SORTS,

ANY COMPROMISE WILL DO, AS WE’LL SURELY WIN, LET’S TREAT THIS AS SOME KIND OF SPORTS!

WINNING, AS VOICED BY VIRTUAL CHINESE IMPRESARIO: JACK MA…

IS SURVIVING THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC AND NOT TO BE AFFECTED BY “KARMA”;

LET’S NOT PROVOKE AND HUMILIATE OUR DEAR FRIEND CHINA – –

WE OUGHT TO BE THANKFUL TOO, UNTO OUR PREXY DUTERTE;

FOR HIS MASTERFUL CHINA PIVOT, TO ALLAY THE RESULTING P.C.A.-CAUSED ENMITY,

LET’S REMAIN AS DOVES AND NOT HAWKS, AND LET’S PRACTICE GOOD OLD DIPLOMACY!

A REVELATION OF SORTS IS TRULY COMPELLING…

FOR IN 1978, A PRESIDENTIAL DECREE WAS MADE AS GROUND AND BEARING;

FOR OUR SUPPOSED CLAIM OVER THE K.I.G. – –

IT’S ACRONYM FOR THE KALAYAAN ISLAND GROUP, OH GEE;

‘TIS P.D. NO. 1596, AND THE ADMISSION WAS TRULY HONEST BUT EDGY,

‘TWAS AN ADMISSION THAT THE K.I.G. DOES NOT BELONG TO US, IT’S AN EVIDENCE AGAINST US, ONE THAT’S A BIT BIGGIE!

 WE DO NOT OWN THE K.I.G, SO F.E.M. ACTUALLY FLAUNTED ABOUT ITS PROXIMITY…

THERE APPEARS TOO THE P.D. SAID, AS AN ABANDONMENT OF CLAIMS FROM ALL AND SUNDRY;

THUS, THE PHILIPPINES CLAIMED THE K.I.G. ON THE SUPPOSED BASIS OF HISTORY – –

AS WELL AS ECONOMIC SURVIVAL AND THE NEED FOR NATIONAL SECURITY;

BUT CHINA HAS BEEN HARPING ALL ABOUT ITS CLAIMS SINCE NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN,

THE PHILIPPINES’ STAND WOULD NOT ADD UP INTO CONSISTENCY, TRULY NOT ON EVEN-STEVEN!

ITONG SI PNOY AY NAHIMOK AT TULUYANG NAKUMBINSI KASI…

NAULUKAN NG ISANG ANIMO’Y EKSPERTO  NA MAG-HAIN NG USAPIN SA I.C.J.;

AT DAHIL CHINA CAN AVAIL OF ITS VETO POWER – –

SA P.C.A. NA LANG INIHAIN ANG CLAIM, KAUGNAY SA TERRITORIAL WATER;

ARBITRATION KUNO WHICH IN ESSE ENTAILS MUTUAL CONSENT,

PERO NAUWI PO ITO SA COMPULSORY PROCEEDINGS, SANS CHINA’S ASSENT!

 THOUGH CHINA RATIFIED AND JOINED THE U.N.C.L.O.S.…

ITS RATIFICATION WAS WITH A CAVEAT, AS ISSUES OF TERRITORY (CHINA AVERRED) MUST NEVER BE A CHOICE;

FOR WHICH CHINA NEVER PARTICIPATED IN THE PROCEEDINGS – –

IT NEITHER SUBMITTED A BRIEF NOR DID IT PRESENT EVIDENTIARY THINGS; 

FOR THE SAKE OF CONSISTENCY, CHINA DID NOT LIFT A FINGER,

IF EVIDENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN PROFFERED BY CHINA, P.D. 1596 WOULD’VE PRODUCED MUCH DISASTER!

DISASTER INDEED WOULD HAVE BEFALLEN THE PHILIPPINES…

FOR THE P.D. IS A LAW AND ALL OF ITS PROVISOS IS EVIDENCE;

OUR COUNTRY’S HISTORIC CLAIM HAPPENED IN 1978 ONLY – –

BUT THAT HISTORIC CLAIM WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, HAPPENED IN THE 19^TH CENTURY;

AND THAT ON MATTERS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, PROXIMITY ISN’T A MATTER OF SUPERIORITY,

IT CAN’T BE ADOPTED TOO AS AN ENTITLEMENT TO SOME PRIMACY!

NOT ONE AMONG THE OTHER CLAIMANTS FILED A CLAIM…

FOR A COLLISION COURSE WITH CHINA AT THIS TIME, COULD BRING MUCH BLAME;

WE’RE BEING USED AGAIN AS A CANNON FODDER – –

NEITHER INDONESIA NOR VIETNAM NOR MALAYSIA NOR BRUNEI AVAILED OF THE ARBITRATION DRUTHER;

SOME QUARTERS ARE CLEARLY PROVOKING WAR AS THOUGH THEY WANT US ALL TO BE SMOTHERED!

THE WORDING OF P.D. 1596 IS A CLEAR DEMONSTRATION…

AS ONE WHEREAS CLAUSE, MADE A CLAIM WITH MUCH DISTINCTION;

“WHEREAS, THESE AREAS DO NOT LEGALLY BELONG TO ANY STATE OR NATION…” – –

‘TIS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO ONE AND ALL, A SEEMING CIRCUMLOCUTION;

 THE P.D.’S ESSENCE INDEED APPEARED TOO VAGUE AND IS SOMEWHAT TINGED WITH NAUGHTY EVASION!

THE ARBITRAL AWARD BEING FLAUNTED BY ATTORNEY HOWARD CALLEJA…

FILED AGAINST RUSSIA, A VETO HOLDER TOO, WHICH IS BEING POSED AS TEMPLATE, HUH?

DIDN’T END WITH THE ARBITRAL AWARD BUT THRU A POST-NEGOTIATION WITH RUSSIA’S CONCUR – –

USE OF INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE MAY NOT INDEED BE SURE;

FOR 160 NATIONS OF THE 193 UN MEMBER NATIONS ARE TRADING PARTNERS OF CHINA’S AND CHINA TODAY IS WORLD’S CYNOSURE!