by USec Art Valdez (Ret) | Jul 11, 2026 | Articles
Co-Author: VADM Joseph M Coyme PCG (Ret), Ph.D. One of the central arguments advanced during the symposium is that Batanes is a “natural geographic extension” of Taiwan and therefore should belong to China. This argument is fundamentally flawed. Anyone...
by USec Art Valdez (Ret) | Jul 11, 2026 | Articles
Co-Author: VADM Joseph M Coyme PCG (Ret), Ph.D. Anyone can advance imaginative theories that a distant island is merely the “natural geographic extension” of another territory. Yet such arguments collapse under both logic and international law. The flaw...
