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China: Islands 'reasonably' expanded
China admitted expanding its islands in the disputed South China Sea, with continued construction in the challenged islands covering about 290,000 square meters or 29 hectares this year alone, state paper People’s Daily ...
- December 26, 2017
The impact of the South China Sea ruling
Newspaper headlines blared on Wednesday last week that the South China Sea is ours, as ruled by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. This should be cause for a national celebration but the government and the ...
- July 18, 2016
Del Rosario repeats SCS plea
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario on Tuesday reiterated his call on President Rodrigo Duterte to bring up for enforcement before the United Nations the Philippines’ 2016 arbitral victory against China ...
- September 23, 2020
'Rody's remarks at UN meet official policy on WPS row'
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday said President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement at the 75th UN General Assembly on the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award stands “as the supreme expression of foreign policy on the ...
- May 8, 2021
Obama warns China: tensions rise over world tribunal's maritime ruling
US President Barack Obama warned Beijing Thursday it could not ignore a tribunal's ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the South China Sea, driving tensions higher in a territorial row that threatens regional security. ...
- September 9, 2016
Tongue in a cheek
Called out for his remarks on how difficult it was to determine the exclusivity of the country’s exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea because “it’s under water,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III last week ...
- July 1, 2019
President asserts arbitral award rejecting China's claims in SCS
In an unprecedented move to assert the country’s position on the South China Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte raised the 2016 arbitral award that rejected Beijing’s excessive nine-dash-line claim before the United Nations ...
- September 23, 2020
Sino ships seen in WPS: despite Beijing's assurance no new expansion in disputed waters
A party-list lawmaker on Tuesday urged the government to file a diplomatic protest against China over Chinese ships spotted near Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea.
At the same time, Magdalo Party-List Rep. Gary ...
- August 16, 2017
Agreeing to disagree
As expected, nothing came out of the well-scripted, one-on-one meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the issue of the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The ...
- September 2, 2019
Credibility problem
China, has a credibility problem, and its name is Xi Jinping. Since Xi became the country’s paramount leader in 2012, China’s foreign policy has been increasingly aggressive—and often belligerent–toward its neighbors in ...
- November 25, 2021