The Philippines has all ready stated their objective neutrality, describing their strategic position along the disputed waters off the coast of Palawan as essentially "administrative."
"Now, it's a big deal because whoever controls those islands in the waters around them, control oil and natural gas deposits, as well as key shipping lanes through the region." ~ New Tang Dynasty TV Israel
"Here, we have a special guest, now, she's been called China's newest 'Public Enemy #1': she's Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance"
"I know for a fact, during the time of our previous President Gloria Magcapal Arroyo, they had an agreement with China to explore our seas and they found: 230,000,000,000 barrels of oil under our shores" ~ China's newest 'Public Enemy #1': Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance"
"Our Soil~Our Oil" (Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance).
"In 1994, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was signed by 120 countries, including China and the Philippines, that 200 nautical miles from your shore belongs to you for exploration and all its minerals, so that's the international law that we are working on. And so that's why the Philippines is so adamant that China should not come in because they are claiming Scarborough Shores to be theirs and it's 120 nautical miles from the Philippines, so 'Hey, this is ours. It is our territory. It is ours.'" ~ Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance
"We had another rally all over the world because, by this time, Filipinos in other places of the world joined us in putting a rally against China, but we said, 'Let's move it a little higher' and I guess it has an affect because suddenly, the China News Agency on television showed me as '#1 Enemy of China,' so 'Hooray for that." You know, let them know this group can fight back. They know the Filipinos, the 10,000,000 Filipinos in the diaspora, will not stand it. It is the duty of Filipinos in the diaspora to say, 'Hey. Stop it. That's ours.'" ~ Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance
"We have to internationalize the issue because this issue is very important for world peace, especially for the South East Asian, and the 'navigation': You know, the area that is being covered controls almost 1/3 of international navigation, but the most important, here, is that the oil in the Philippines, if it is extracted, we will be #2, after Saudi Arabia, in terms of barrels of oil, and aside from that, there are trillions of gallons of natural gas within our shore. You know, the Philippines is called, 'Pearl of the Orient': G-d has endowed it with this kind of mineral resources, wealth, natural gas... The real purpose of all of this is: with whom will we share these blessings? That is the real question, here.'" ~ Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance
"So. Where is the solution? For me, the solution is really in this change of power within China. We are continuing to voice out, so that the new leadership in China will listen, so that China becomes not the Big Bully, but the Elder Brother. If it wants, it can become someone who can help us mature together as the New Century of Asia." ~ Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance
"I do believe in the power of prayer. We are not saying that China should be toppled down, but the new leadership should sort of be 'enlightened': that it is good for China to have peace with its neighbors and not have this Imperial Militarism. So. I just want the new leaders of China to understand that they have a great future as a world power, if they will be a good citizen of the world, following the international rule of law." ~ Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance
"We will see: by March, it will be clearer in China who will lead this arising superpower. Will it be somebody who says, 'This is mine'? That would be very unfortunate because that was done by Japan during World War II, it was done by Germany during World War II, and they fell. K? Any world power that does not abide by international rule of law is bound to fail." ~ Leona Nicolas-Lewis, the National Chair of Pinoys for Good Governance
