FOR all the previous Aquino 3rd administration's fixation (or pretended concern) over Philippine sovereign rights in the South China Sea, as defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), it didn't bother with actually producing an official map that shows the breadth of both our territorial sea and its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Officially therefore, we still can't claim where our maritime zones (EEZ and territorial sea) begin and end.

This only confirms my thesis that the Aquino regime and the likes of his foreign secretary Albert del Rosario and foremost Sinophobe Antonio Carpio weren't really concerned about our nation's sovereignty and sovereign rights. Carpio's maps, as well as those presented by the Philippines in the arbitration suit, are therefore spurious in that they are not official maps.

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