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China refuses to honor SCS ruling
Still refusing to honor The Hague’s ruling as “final” and “indisputable,” China has warned that it would respond to attempts to implement the ruling on the South China Sea arbitration. Speaking at a press conference in ...
- July 15, 2022
Rules (not might) make right in SCS
This week, on my first trip to the Indo-Pacific region as Acting Secretary of Defense, I look forward to reiterating the United States’ commitment to a Free and Open Indo Pacific. Over the last four years, a growing number ...
- December 7, 2020
China touts 'responsible' fishing despite worst offender tag
Ranked as the worst illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing offender in the Pacific, China has maintained that it is a “responsible” fishing country that strictly implements the United Nations Convention on the ...
- December 7, 2020
'No solution to SCS row in our lifetime'
President Duterte was still reaping hometown praises for telling the world Tuesday that the Philippines stood by the 2016 arbitration award affirming its sovereign rights within its maritime areas when his spokesman rose ...
- September 27, 2020
Duterte won't withdraw Phl ships from WPS
President Duterte has rejected a call from China to withdraw ships from waters around Pag-asa Island, saying Philippine vessels will “not move an inch backward” even at the cost of his life or his friendship with Beijing. ...
- May 15, 2021
Roque says some Duterte language on WPS 'not accurate'
President Duterte may have used “inaccurate” language in discussing the country’s maritime row with China, but his views on the issue have been consistent, his spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said yesterday. Roque said when the ...
- May 18, 2021
US to China: stop provocative acts in SCS
On the sixth anniversary of the arbitral ruling invalidating China’s massive claim in the South China Sea on Tuesday, July 12, the United States called on Beijing to stop its provocative acts in the region and reaffirmed ...
- July 13, 2022
Phl slams China unilateral fishing ban in SCS
The Philippines denounced China’s unilateral fishing moratorium in the South China Sea under China’s new Coast Guard Law that can curtail and put at risk the legitimate rights of Filipino fishermen to fish in Philippine ...
- May 20, 2021
DND: MDT can't force China out of WPS
The Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) between the Philippines and the US cannot be used to drive away or force Chinese vessels out of the West Philippine Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana clarified yesterday. Lorenzana ...
- April 22, 2021
'Remember Recto Bank sinking'
A year after the ramming and sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in Recto Bank, former foreign affairs chief Albert del Rosario is urging Filipinos not to forget the incident or surrender to China’s ...
- June 10, 2020