Browsing by Subject "territoriality"

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    • China builds military-grade runway in West PH Sea 

      Ortuoste, Jenny (Manila Standard, April 19, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      Aerial photographs show an increase in Chinese military infrastructure in the West Philippine Sea, and as a threat upon our sovereignty it is most alarming. Some of the photos show a military-grade runway and Chinese ...

    • China told: keep out of Spratlys 

      Fabunan, Sara Susanne D. (Manila Standard, June 3, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      President Rodrigo Duterte has asked China to stay away from the Philippine claimed the Spratly Islands, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano told his pre-departure news conference Friday night. Before he took the four-hour ...

    • DFA to seek advice of Del Rosario, Locsin on PH's Sabah claim 

      Casayuran, Mario (Manila Bulletin, October 2, 2022, on page 7)
      The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will seek the advice of former DFA secretaries on how to deal with a French Arbitral Court ruling awarding $14.92 billion to the heirs of the Sulu Sultanate on their territorial claim ...

    • Duterte's China 

      Nery, John (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 31, 2016, on page A9)
      It is possible that the seeming inconstancy in the Duterte approach to the territorial and maritime conflict in the South China Sea is strategic. What does it mean when one day he talks about shelving our claims aside in ...

    • Little fish comes out fighting 

      DPA (Manila Bulletin, September 20, 2012, on page B-8)
      Cats rarely fight over territory: that dreadful caterwauling you hear in the night is not actual violence but a pantomime of threatened violence that usually ends with one feline slinking off after deciding that the other ...

    • Sabah arbitral ruling tackled anew 

      Garner, Jom (Daily Tribune, September 29, 2022, on page A1-A6)
      Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on Wednesday assured lawmakers that he will look into the legal implications of the recent decision of a French arbitral court to the country’s sovereignty claim over Sabah. “We are ...

    • Upholding WPS sovereignty backed 

      Villegas, Gab Humilde (Daily Tribune, June 28, 2022, on page 3)
      Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario on Monday lauded the Philippine government’s decision to uphold the country’s sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) while finding new energy sources. In a statement, ...

    • 'US must act if China moves on reef' 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 21, 2016, on page A2)
      President Aquino said the United States would be obligated to take military action in the South China Sea if China moved to reclaim a hotly contested reef directly off the Philippines. Mr. Aquino said he had no indication ...

    • US warship sails near disputed isle 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 11, 2016, on page A10)
      A US Navy warship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Tuesday, a US Department of Defence official said, days after China warned criticism of its claims in the crucial waterway would rebound like a ...