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Experts see Duterte finding balance between China and US
Incoming Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is not expected to swing to China's side opposite of the United States but will instead place the country in between the two big powers, foreign policy and defense experts said ...
- June 28, 2016
Locsin files protest vs new China Coast Guard Law
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday filed a diplomatic protest over China’s new law allowing its Coast Guard to fire on foreign vessels. “After reflection I fired a diplomatic protest. While enacting law ...
- January 28, 2021
PH military chief Chinese vessels' formation suspicious
The Armed Forces chief, Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, on Wednesday said the military-style formation of about 200 Chinese vessels at a reef within the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea ...
- March 25, 2021
Phl protests China’s latest SCS actions
The Philippines “strongly” protested China’s establishment of two new districts in the disputed South China Sea and the illegal designation of Kagitingan Reef within the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) as administrative center ...
- May 1, 2020
'China to turn over WPS structures to PH'
The structures, including the military facilities that China built on the West Philippine Sea, may end up with the Philippines once the “day of reckoning” comes, a lawmaker said Monday, adding the continuous building of ...
- October 6, 2020
WPS will be key issue in 2022 elections'
Filipino voters should consider the West Philippine Sea (WPS) dispute a “high-priority issue” in the 2022 presidential elections and politicians should go beyond generalities and present a credible plan to protect national ...
- May 9, 2021
‘60-40 sea deal with China illegal’
President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer of a 60-40 percent joint exploration deal with China is tantamount to treason, a lawmaker said Sunday. Rep. Gary Alejano of Magdalo party-list issued the statement in light of Duterte’s ...
- April 30, 2018
The Mabini Reef
The government says it will exhaust all diplomatic and legal means to prevent China from turning Mabini Reef into another Mischief Reef. As I said in my last column, web should do as Vietnam has done in the disputed Paracels ...
- May 27, 2014
PH must review foreign policy strategy amid Chinese missile deployment
The discovery of China’s deployment of missiles on three Philippine reefs in the Spratly archipelago is deeply concerning but not the least bit surprising. If one has dealt with China, of certainty is the stark inconsistency ...
- May 7, 2018
Emerging 'tinderbox': PHL defies China's reported 'fishing ban' in disputed WPS, including Scarborough
Defense and military authorities are bracing for a possible escalation of tensions anew between China and the Philippines amid the raging territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that could raise the specter ...
- May 8, 2021