Nowadays, maritime dispute has been surfaced quite often on media online. South China Sea dispute between China and South East Asian countries, East China Sea dispute between China and Japan are most noticeable among others. Currently, Taiwan and Philippine case is the hottest affair and the world is watching the escalation of the matter. Taiwan yesterday showed their muscles by exercising open fire navy conduct closed to Philippine's border where recent incident has occurred. It started last week between Taiwanese fish boat and Philippine coastal guard in which 65 years old Taiwanese fisherman died by shot.
Philippine claimed it is self-defense to protect attempt of ramming by fishing boat. Taiwan demanded official apology and compensation to victim family. As Philippine side looks hesitant, Taiwan threaten to cut diplomatic tie and immediately freeze Filipino's seek for work pass in their territory. Once an apology issued by Phillippine, Taiwan see it insincere and insufficient. Hence, Taiwan continue to send their navy battleships and conduct exercise to show their anger. The US issued their concern and encourage both sides to exercise restrain. Why such things keep happening to Asia pacific region? We, Asian are conventionally considered peaceful race with gentle religion teaching. But we see more and more aggression among nations regarding maritime disputes. Fortunately, my country has no major issue with our long standing coastal line.
We say 'One people One World' and how do we achieve such goal without eternal peace in mind? Last year, ASEAN summit has failed to generate common statement in Cambodia due to different opinion among member states. Hopefully, world's citizen able to appreciate peaceful lives rather than conflict here there. In order to achieve that common goal, we must behave our considerate manner individually. Lets start peaceful act from ourselves rather than pointing finger to each other.
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