菲律宾探索与台湾深化海底电缆保护合作：驻美外交官称做法务实，不因一个中国政策改变
菲律宾驻美国使团副团长 Felipe F. Carino III 10月21日在华盛顿新美国安全中心的一场研讨会上表示，菲律宾正探索与台湾深化合作，以保护海底电缆并应对「灰色地带」活动；尽管马尼拉奉行一个中国政策、承认北京而非台北，这一做法不会改变。
Carino 表示，这种「务实而实际的做法」是为了保护双方在台湾与菲律宾之间的巴士海峡的共同利益。他说，海底电缆的安全至关重要，因为它们承载着几乎全部洲际数据流量，而且「本地区发生60%至67%的网络事件」。他说，双方正探索包括知识共享与能力建设在内的合作方式，并认为这有助于应对本地区的灰色地带问题。被问及合作是否可能包括联合巡逻或追究破坏通讯船只的责任时，他表示尚无细节，但合作在不断演进，其中一些设想可能实现。
本月，菲律宾海岸警卫队曾派出其最大巡逻舰和一架飞机，应对一艘在巴丹群岛省以北海域、海底电缆通道附近活动的中国科考船。在同一场研讨会上，台湾驻美副代表 Andrea Yang 提到台湾曾监禁一名损坏海底电缆的中国船长，并表示台湾将投入更多资源发展无人系统以加强海上监视；她还认为，海底电缆受干扰的问题应提交联合国讨论。
中国主张台湾为其领土，并与台湾和菲律宾在南海均有重叠主张，相关争议近年多次引发摩擦。（据路透社10月21日报道整理）
Philippines Explores Deeper Cooperation With Taiwan to Protect Undersea Cables: Envoy Calls the Approach Pragmatic Despite Manila's One-China Policy
Felipe F. Carino III, the Philippines' deputy chief of mission in Washington, told a seminar at the Center for a New American Security on October 21 that the Philippines is exploring deeper cooperation with Taiwan on protecting undersea cables and addressing gray-zone activity, and that this would not change despite Manila's one-China policy, which recognizes Beijing and not Taipei.
Carino said the pragmatic and practical approach was necessary to protect mutual interests in the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines. He said the security of undersea cables was vital given that they carry nearly all intercontinental data flows, and that 60 to 67 percent of cyber incidents happen in the region. The two sides, he said, were exploring cooperation including knowledge-sharing and capacity building, which he saw as leading towards addressing gray-zone issues in their part of the world. Asked whether the cooperation could include joint patrols or accountability for vessels that disrupt communications, he said he had no details, but that the cooperation was constantly evolving and some of those possibilities might come to fruition.
Earlier this month, the Philippine Coast Guard deployed its largest vessel and an aircraft to challenge a Chinese research ship operating off the northern province of Batanes, near undersea cable corridors. At the same seminar, Andrea Yang, Taiwan's deputy representative in Washington, referred to the jailing in Taiwan of a Chinese ship captain over damage to an undersea cable, said Taiwan would put more resources into developing unmanned systems to improve maritime surveillance, and argued that interference with undersea cables should be taken up by the United Nations.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has overlapping claims with both Taiwan and the Philippines in the South China Sea, which have fuelled repeated spats in recent years. (Compiled from Reuters, October 21)
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