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My organization had planned on drilling a site in Philippines waters on our upcoming expedition but that has been canceled. Not sure if it was because of security concerns or if maybe permission to drill the site was pulled by the government. Though we're still going to have a Filipino observer aboard from the National Institute of Geosciences. Not sure why anymore. We may also relocate a planned tie-up of our vessel from Subic Bay next summer to probably Keelung, evidently. That's my story about Philippines, thanks for reading.
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Ersatz posted:I don't believe it either, but I'm sure that China would be more than happy to sell weapons, and a lot more, in exchange for Filipino recognition of the "nine dash line." It's hard to overstate the importance of that particular territorial dispute to China. We have a double expedition next year, sponsored by China, in the SCS nearer the Paracel Islands, nominally for the purposes of studying thinning of the lithosphere in continental breakup, but almost certainly the core data we obtain is sure to appear in support of their claim at some point down the line.
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