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The Armed Forces and some experts support the plan to release a new standard map of the Philippines.  Tristan Nodalo reports.   Visit our website for more #NewsYouCanTrust: https://www.cnnphilippines.com/  Follow our social media pages:  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnnphilippines/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines

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00:00 Amid continuing encounters between the Philippines and China in the West Philippine Sea and Beijing's

00:07 move to release a new standard map featuring a 10-dash line, the Armed Forces of the Philippines

00:12 believes it's high time for the Philippines to release its own map.

00:16 This standard map will actually counter the narrative of the 10-dash line map that China

00:22 has just published.

00:24 Details are still unavailable on what the new standard map will look like, but the National

00:29 Task Force on the West Philippine Sea said it is now in the approval process.

00:33 But a possible element in the map is the renaming of some maritime features.

00:37 "I heard this new map will now carry all Filipino names for all our features in the West Philippine

00:42 Sea."

00:43 For Ambassador Henry Bensurto, the head of the DFA legal team in the Philippine arbitration

00:48 case against China, a new map featuring maritime entitlements will serve as a guide.

00:53 "It's important that we have a map that we can understand for our fellow Filipinos, for

01:00 our fishermen, for our law enforcement."

01:04 He adds following the 2016 arbitral ruling, the country's maritime entitlements are now

01:09 clearer, including baselines, archipelagic waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone,

01:13 exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, and extended continental shelf.

01:17 "It's a map that is consistent with international law.

01:21 That's what's important."

01:22 And if countries have objections to this new standard map, Bensurto says there are a number

01:26 of options on how issues can be resolved.

01:29 "We can discuss it bilaterally with that country.

01:33 And if we don't agree, maybe we should consider the other mechanisms available under international

01:40 law, including arbitration, including mediation."

01:45 But asserting our rights in the West Philippine Sea should not stop with the release of a

01:48 standard map.

01:50 Some experts say it must be taught in our schools and be part of our educational system.

01:54 "This is important because this is how we will rebut China's claim.

01:58 It's all there.

01:59 All of these documents are there.

02:01 And we must teach our people.

02:04 Unfortunately, the DepEd has not taken interest in this."

02:09 For some experts, the release of an updated Philippine Standard Map is one of the ways

02:13 on how the country can enforce the 2016 arbitral award.

02:17 But China previously called the 2016 arbitral ruling as illegal, null and void.

02:23 In Zambales Province, Tristan Udalo, CNN Philippines.

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