Browsing by Author "Saludo, Ricardo"

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    • Duterte: There will be trouble ‘if China grabs oil and uranium’ 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, August 23, 2018, on page A1-A5)
      Is President Rodrigo Duterte moving away from his close friendship with China? Recently, he has strongly taken issue over stern radio warnings by the Chinese to Philippine military aircraft flying near Beijing’s facilities ...

    • How to defend Panatag Shoal 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, March 23, 2017, on page A1-A5)
      Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who contributed immensely to our winning our arbitration suit against China’s “nine-dash line” maritime claim, wants President Rodrigo Duterte to shut up. Justice Carpio asked ...

    • If China deploys missiles so should we 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, May 8, 2018, on page A1-A5)
      No amount of global protest will make China remove anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles reportedly installed on the three islands it reclaimed in the South China Sea. Assuming President-for-life Xi Jinping approved deployment, ...

    • Should we join America in facing off with China? 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, June 5, 2018, on page A1-A5)
      Should the Philippines join the United States in its campaign to counter China’s actions in the South China Sea? Washington’s posse against Beijing’s reclamation and military deployment in disputed waters just got bigger, ...

    • Things are heating up in the South China Sea 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, October 18, 2018, on page A1-A5)
      It’s been slow in coming. But next month, the United States Navy, maybe with some allied warships in tow, will stage what it bills as its largest defense exercise in the South China Sea — bringing the superpower confrontation ...

    • What Duterte must get from China 

      Saludo, Ricardo (The Manila Times, October 18, 2016, on page A1-A5)
      It’s not sovereignty over the South China Sea (SCS) and the Spratlys, or any expanses of water or bits of rock and reef it wants to wangle from President Rodrigo Duterte. The Chinese know that, like them, no nation ever ...