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Open Secret

Open Secret is a column on security matters–terrorist threats, military reforms, force modernization, threat perception, security policies, peace talks, intelligence failures, military corruption, emerging security challenges, etc. –those pressing issues that are often not understood, but are life threatening. It is a column on concerns that are being kept “secret,” but are in the “open” anyway, forcing these matters for discussion with a desire to educate the readers and raise public awareness on security issues affecting people and the state so as to generate social acceptability.


Open Secret

Risks of War in the Spratlys

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Jose Rizal, The Spratly Disputes And Philippines-China Relations

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As we celebrate the 150th birthday anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal,  our national hero whom Leon Ma. Guerrero describes as the “First Filipino”, the Philippines is beset with a sovereignty challenge in a complex maritime dispute over some territories in the South China Sea (now called by the Philippine government as West Philippine Sea).



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West Philippine Sea: What’s In A Name?

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In an effort to assert its sovereignty over some body of waters in the South China Sea, the Philippine government has started to use “West Philippine Sea” to describe a maritime area that is deemed to be an integral part of Philippine maritime territory.



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Anarchy In The South China Sea

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To peacefully manage the complex territorial disputes in the South China Sea (SCS), Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario urgently calls for the promotion of a “rules-based regime” that can transform SCS “from an area of dispute to a Zone of Peace, Freedom, Friendship, and Cooperation (ZoPFF/C).”



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Remembering 2004 Super Ferry 14 Bombing: World’s Deadliest Maritime Terrorist Attack, So Far

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Not known to many Filipinos, the world’s deadliest maritime terrorist attack occurred in the Philippines five years ago in Manila Bay.

On 27 February 2004, just days after the commemoration of the People Power Uprising in 1986, the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bombed the overloaded Super Ferry 14 carrying 900 passengers. The bombing instantly caused the death of 116 persons and the injury of more than 300 others.



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