Pag-asa Island? Oops, arbitration award ruled it’s just a rock

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao

Apr 08, 2019 12:11 am

Taiping and Pag-Asa’s EEZ (inside the circle) if they were islands.

Aquino and del Rosario wanted to get the arbitral tribunal to rule that the seven features in the Spratly islands occupied by China were just rocks, and therefore could not have an exclusive economic zone, and could only have a 12- nautical mile territorial sea.

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