WE DO NOT WANT WAR, BUT WE WOULD DEFEND OUR RIGHTS IN OUR OWN TERRITORY AS WELL.

We support Phillipines 🇵🇭🤝🇮🇳❤️ from India

We are not that strong but we will defend what is ours 🇵🇭

I live on the west coast of Palawan and operated a small fishing boat and then passenger boat for tourism from 2005 - 2014. When I first started, the sea was so alive with big schools of fish, dolphin, turtles and sea birds. I went out to the Spratlies a couple times for fishing, and I woke up at dawn to find hundreds of dolphins swimming every which way all around my tiny little boat feeding on schools of tuna. It was the most amazing sight ever! Shortly after that the Chinese moved in and from then on, the schools of fish and sea birds have all disappeared, and it looks like a dead sea.

To avoid any conflict. Every country must respect international laws.

The Philippines should stop giving government projects to Chinese contractors. The Philippines should also start decreasing reliance on China by slowly starting to find alternative trade partners for different products. When the Philippines don't rely on China for anything and when the Philippines stop giving money to the Chinese contractors, then the Philippines would have already won without a drop of blood. That is how you defeat China. China's economy is already in trouble and the normal Chinese citizen is already struggling including their pension system. If you stop relying on China and stop doing business with China, they will start collapsing from within.

Philippines, asias next hot war? You say that with a smile. You have no idea what war is like.

Thank you Prof. Richard Heydarian. You make Philippines/Filipinos proud of you!! 🤩🇵🇭

Without any information, just looking in the map, you can definitely say, its belong to the Philippines.

Filipino is not coward they will fight for their land and sea 💪💪💪

GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES! ❤️🎉🎉🎉

Why Melissa always interrupt when Richard is having good point of view in the discussion

Having a bad neighbor really sucks, peace-loving countries should cooperate with each other, or at least support each other, to fend off a domineering gangster.

Vietnam has always hated china, now I see why.

NO to WAR please HEAVENLY FATHER

Richard from the Philippines is the best resource person on this topic

LABAN PINAS! Bilang ordinaryong mamamayan, ang maitutulong natin sa laban nato ay ang hindi pagtangkilik sa mga produktong Tsina tulad ng Huawei, Oppo, Shopee at TikTok! Hwag natin silang hayaan lalo pang lumakas at lalo tayong apihin at ipagtabuyan sa sarili nating teritoryo!

Despite enduring numerous hardships, Filipinos are resilient, having been accustomed to such challenges. However, if China continues its bullying tactics, Filipinos will reach their breaking point, and China will face consequences despite its abundance. It's a warning: China should not underestimate the Filipinos' patience and goodwill, for if their rights are violated, there will be repercussions.

We don’t want war not anymore after hearing from my grandmother about the world war || . We should respect the law

I‘m a Filipino living in Germany. Thank you for this topics…Praying for the World peace.🕊️🙏🏻🫶

Yes !!! DO NOT USE CHINA’s product like hua wei, Tik tok or any Chinese products !

Alliance is the answer to this specter of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism.. This is why so many countries are standing with Philippines 🇵🇭🇺🇸🇩🇪🇦🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷🇮🇳

Thank you so much for all of you who trek efforts for taking time to discuss such topic that is so important to us Filipinos whose sovereignty rights are concerned. We love and have learned many things on what is presently going on and how we Filipinos will continue looking forward to into this crucial problem we are facing. I salute all of your courage and showing your support and dedication offering all the necessary data that is really beneficial towards the peaceful results to resolve the ongoing problem. To our Phil. representative on this program, I’m so proud of you defending our rights as a nation. God bless you all and your loveones with more power and discernment on whatever agenda you will discuss in your program.

My last: let's stop call these waters South China Sea and maybe sth less imperialist, like South East Asia Sea .. to clarify that ALL nations have to respect their borders and international, commonly shared space as such

Filipinos are one of the kindest people I have never known. However, if you push them around, you would surely regret it..... They fight and resist stubbornly.... Filipino soldiers are one of the best in combat as proven by history... Just remember the battles of Bataan and Corregidor.. The Battles of Yultong...

Filipinos around the world especially business sectors must unite! no matter what...we have to help our country in any possible way,raise funds to enhance our military defence. Laban Pilipinas!

Why can the international Court can't emplement such laws, most specially arbitrary ruling

When every close neighbor has a dispute with you, you're probably the problem.

I hope Philippines starts decoupling from China. It would be hard at first but it's going to be beneficial to us in the long run. No to BRI, Chinese projects, products, everything related to China.

God bless Philippines 🇵🇭 from Canada 🇨🇦

This is what I like about the enemies, they always belittle the Philippines. Never interrupt an enemy when they are making a mistake.

Please call it West Philippine Sea, rather than South China Sea.

"If you want peace, prepare for a war" don't go on the thing like this: "we are very friendly nation and don't want a war" these things doesn't worked. The world is changing and war in Ukraine manifest the possibility of human nature want more territory. The only can prevent a war is to show them you've got to know how to defense yourself that's how peace going to work nowadays.

Yes discuss, dialogue but do not forget to beef up your defence for any eventuality. ( you never know)

DW news... THIS WAS AWSOME! How often do you do this type of show? I am from Canada and have been watching your channel almost every day for a couple of years now. You are showing not only the actual interviews (which is fairly normal) but you are also including the comments of your viewers, and responding to a few of their comments. I will try harder to make more clear and concise comments on your channel from now on, as it seems like you care about the thoughts of your viewers. It seems like you are being honest about what your panel thinks about our comments as well. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

During the time of Rodrigo Duterte is when China became aggressive in the West Philippine Sea in terms of invading Scarborough shoul, ayugin shoul, and Spratly islands

What do you do to a big bully? Answer: you call on the authority to correct the situation. In this case, the US is the authority which can correct the situation. Incidentally, US and Philippines has a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) which states, among others, to come to one's defense in case of an armed attack.

I am not afraid to die just to defend my country 🇵🇭 God created this island for us only for the Filipinos . We will never retreat or give up to defend our own every single inch of our island . We will fight until the last breath ! A message to China 🇨🇳 Stop bullying us 🇵🇭 We are all created . We are all brothers & sister's . We have the same part's of the body except faces & culture . We are living in the same 🌎🌍 . God also created this planet to all every little living things. Not only for you China ! If they are insisting , we are ready to fight & to die to defend our country & for our love one's for the next generation . God Bless Philippines 🇵🇭☀️⭐⭐⭐ Shine Philippines 🕊️🤠❤️❤️❤️

DONT UNDERESTIMATE THE PHILIPPINES. IT MIGHT BE SMALL BUT ITS CAPABLE OF UPDATING THE MILITARY FORCES AND TACTICAL ANALYSIS AND MORE

Correction to the title of news, the incident of escalation occurred in the vicinty west Philippines sea not in south china sea.

The Philippines is ready to defend our own maritime rights in West Philippine Sea not South China Sea. We are not afraid to do that despite the danger on it.

Why would you caption that?

Its a maltreatment and non acceptable to any..! May the Lord guide and protect the front liners,President and the country.. Praying for Philippines..

I rather call that part of the world as SEA sea.

As professor Richard Heydarian pointed out in his vlogs, the Philippines is not getting much support from fellow ASEAN countries in the midst of all these bullying from China. Not a single official statement from them in support of the Philippines

A war can break out from one lose canon injuring the other side, and the other side retaliating.

THANK YOU RICHARD HEYDARIAN for telling the world what happen in west philippine sea

Let's move forward Richard..😮

Being a UN member nowadays don't mean anything. That is why things escalate because UN choose to ignore these type of aggression.

No to war Yes to peace.

Are you telling us you don't know what the treaty is between the US and the philippines? In the event the philippines is attacked the agreement with the US is that they would support the protection of them.

Filipinos are just silent but there is a spirit of Lapu Lapu inside us or a David like courage 🙏. Praying that we can hold on our patience and let the battle to the Lord who is the owner of everything Psalms 24:1.🙏❤️

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and now Philippines....what's wrong with China??😂😂

So far the video is very informative, however I dislike the way you kept cutting off Collins through showing infographics, and asking new questions for him to answer after pulling up the images.

I can't really see the point other Filipinos saying they will defend the island and should not let the bully bullied you. I mean its okay for other situation but this matter is way different. If the war break out are fellow Filipinos even willing to be deployed to defend the country against China? Most people keep saying that Philippine has a lot friends. Are you even sure that they will help when that day happen aside from donating aide? They better reflect what's happening to Ukraine now. I am a Filipino but if the cost of this war are the lives of many Filipinos then I am willing to let go the island instead and our government should look for other ways to improve the country. We can always be like Singapore if we have the right leaders with great mindset and loves the country so much.

I'll draw my own world map and claim I rule the seven seas🤦🤦🤦

You compare the small money given by the USA to the Philippines and the big amounts given to other countries like Egypt, Thailand, Israel, etc.

Let us all pray for this..Pray unceasingly.

It's frustrating when the anchor keeps interrupting. Why not wait until the person has finished speaking before showing an infographic to further explain? It's quite annoying as a listener when you're interested in the answer and then get abruptly interrupted. I understand that you value attentiveness and detail orientation, but why not listen first before asking further questions or presenting anything, to ensure clarity?

China has issue with every neighbour including Russia🤣

Any armed conflict in the region would come from only one country, China. China is in violation of UNCLOS and despite losing the case in an international tribunal, China continues its unlawful and highly provocative behavior in international waters and economic exclusion zones of other countries. However, if China starts a kinetic war in the region, it will definitely lose more in the long run not only in military terms, but it may also find itself isolated on the international stage politically and economically because of its contempt for international norms of behavior. If China's neighbors and the international community firmly stand up to China's lawlessness, China may reconsider its position and abide by UNCLOS.

No to WAR

A great show to watch! First time viewer of this show on DW live stream. Hoping i will be more time tuning in. I am from the Philippines and we need this type of program at this time. Keep up the good talk show like this! Good luck.

Yes im a pilipino citizens and im willing to defend our country than to criticize the government im a marcos loyalist since marcos apo lakay term

After failing with taiwan now trying with filipino 😂😂😂

Loved this interview, very concise, informative, and eye opening. Hope this news network does more like it

I live in the USA, and I'll defend my beautiful country the Philippines!

Simple point: China should recognize and respect the Decision On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal adjudicating the Philippines' case against China in the South China Sea ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the Philippines. If china do this then no issues in West Phil sea.

Thanks for bringing up this issue.

thank you for bringing this up on your program. 🇵🇭

Michelle Stockman's presentation was excellent. Helped me grasp a lot of it & visualise it.

This should invoke the 🇺🇸 US - Philippines's 🇵🇭 Mutual Defense agreement.

More German and other European/ "Western" politicians should follow, so they finally stop their own industrial Oligarchs from trading profits with the CCP at the expense of an Internal Law rules based order

This was one of the best documentaries into this very disputed part of the world. As a Filippino American, I hope that war doesn't come between the Philippines and China At the same time, the Philippines better stand up to whomever is encroaching on their territory.

Don't test us Filipinos, they might find what they're looking for....

Liebe DW Team, Please add timestamps and remove 17 min intro. You are a professional news network not a high school media class

this is what power can do, can change the laws

The fact that ya'll are laying down some context before getting into the latest issues. Is quite uncommon, much appreciated and very refreshing. We need to get more people to listen to you.

I am already old 60yrs. old my childrens anf granchild deserve to have a peaceful earth.

what an insightful discussion!

Your right

The Philippines should look at how Ukraine is dealing with russia’s navy. Invest in sea faring drones.

These servicemen aren't making mistakes they are taking orders. They are playing chicken to see if countries can be pushed around.

What's up with the feedback on your microphones?

Stop calling it south China sea. Call it south east asian sea

dont use that line, "the philippines believe" because its really ours, its our exclusive economic zone people, at chinas navy is not bigger than U.S., china has numbers but the U.S. navy has still larger water displacement.

The metric for sizing a navy is tonnage, not number of ships, having a dozen of corvettes is not a match for having 6 destroyers. The US Navy is nearly three times the size of the Chinese Navy in terms of tonnage, and in terms of deliverable missile payload, the gap is even bigger. China is building a lot, but it has a big gap to close.

This was a very informative one thanks guys. Cheers!!!! - Melvin / Philippines

In my idea for what would happen the air will strike first and the sea will be next.

Good useful talk with educated and friendly guests. Thanks DW!

I find the "poll" moot. Isn't there already conflict between China and the Phillipines, and China and Taiwan already?

Exactly how does one deal with proliferation of mice?

I'm a FIlipino and yeah it belongs to us, but never make the wrong decision like what happened in Ukraine because the west will just use us as a guinea pig. And as far as history is concern China never conquered the Philippines, but our allies did. So now, you have something to think about.

Nobody wins in war. Why can't we just be friends? 😢

Ladies this discussion shouldn’t have taken that tone . This is a serious matter not a new holiday vacation you are bubbly discussing about. It’s a little tone deaf.

Richard Is a true FILIPINO heart and mind , and he loves our country very much , more power to you

The Philippines' claims in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) are supported by a robust foundation of historical treaties, international law, and geographical factors: 1. Historical Boundaries: - Treaty of Paris (1898): Defined the initial boundaries of the Philippines, including areas up to 118 degrees east longitude in the West Philippine Sea. Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. - Treaty of Washington (1900): Also known as the Spanish-American Treaty of Friendship and General Relations, it ceded additional islands to the U.S. that were not explicitly included in the Treaty of Paris. - Cession Treaty between Spain and the US (1900): Signed in November, this treaty transferred any remaining Spanish possessions in the Philippine archipelago to the United States, ensuring comprehensive territorial coverage. - US-UK Convention (1930): Also known as the Treaty of Washington of 1930, this agreement further clarified the territorial boundaries of the Philippines, particularly in relation to British North Borneo (now part of Malaysia). 2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS): - The Philippines ratified UNCLOS in 1984, granting it rights as a signatory nation. - UNCLOS provides for a 12 nautical mile territorial sea and a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) from the coastal baseline. - The EEZ grants the Philippines sovereign rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving, and managing natural resources in this area. 3. International Recognition: - The 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration Ruling in The Hague overwhelmingly favored the Philippines' position. - The ruling invalidated China's "nine-dash line" claim and affirmed the Philippines' rights within its EEZ. - It also clarified the status of various maritime features, determining that none of the Spratly Islands are legally "islands" capable of generating their own EEZ. 4. Geographical Factors: - Proximity and continuity: Many of the disputed features are significantly closer to the Philippines than to other claimant countries. - The principle of continuity of territory supports the Philippines' claims, as these areas can be seen as natural prolongations of the Philippine archipelago. 5. National Legislation: - Republic Act 3046 (1961), amended by Republic Act 5446 (1968): These laws defined the Philippines' territorial sea baselines, incorporating the Treaty of Paris limits. - Presidential Decree No. 1596 (1978): Established the Kalayaan Island Group as part of Philippine territory, asserting sovereignty over these features in the West Philippine Sea. - Republic Act 9522 (2009): Defined the Philippines' archipelagic baselines and maritime zones in alignment with UNCLOS, including areas in the West Philippine Sea. This law aimed to harmonize domestic legislation with international maritime law. 6. Traditional Usage: - Historical fishing rights: Filipino fishermen have operated in these waters for generations, establishing a pattern of traditional use. - This long-standing practice supports claims based on historical usage and cultural connection to the area. These six points, supported by both historical documents and modern legal frameworks, collectively form the basis of the Philippines' claims in the West Philippine Sea. They demonstrate a continuous line of sovereignty and rights from the late 19th century to the present day, encompassing historical cession, international law, geographical realities, traditional usage, and national legislation. The Philippine government maintains that its claims are consistent with international law and are vital for protecting its national interests, including economic resources, maritime security, and territorial integrity. Ongoing discussions and negotiations at bilateral and multilateral levels aim to peacefully resolve these disputes while upholding the principles of international law and regional stability. SOURCES: 1. Official Documents: - Treaty of Paris (1898): Available in the U.S. National Archives - UNCLOS text: United Nations website (un.org) 2. Academic Sources: - Bautista, L. (2011). "Philippine territorial boundaries: internal tensions, colonial baggage, ambivalent conformity." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 42(3), 565-589. - Storey, I. (2013). "Manila Ups the Ante in the South China Sea." China Brief, 13(3), The Jamestown Foundation. 3. Government Sources: - Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines (gov.ph) for national legislation - Department of Foreign Affairs, Philippines (dfa.gov.ph) 4. International Rulings: - Permanent Court of Arbitration. (2016). "The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of Philippines v. The People's Republic of China)." 5. Legal Analyses: - Batongbacal, J. (2016). "Arbitration 101: Philippines v. China." Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. 6. Think Tanks and Research Institutions: - Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (CSIS) - The South China Sea Chronicle Initiative

Great discussion podcast. 👍watching from California.

It will be a David Vs Goliath battle like all these networks are saying. Us Filipinos will come out on top.

The laws governing international waters, established by the UN, were not in place when China made its claims. The south china sea island was controlled by Japan during world war II. Chinese navy sail to south china sea to receive surrender by Japanese under Allied supreme commands in 1947. They occupy the Taiping island. Declare sovereign over Spratly Island. In 1947, Philippine was not a sovereign state. It is an US colony (US. defeat Spain in Spanish American war). When China made its claim, there simply no sovereign state around south china sea other than China. All other country we saw today were western colony. They are not sovereign states.