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Urgently needed: SCS Code of Conduct
The South China Sea has not been spared the nail-biting tension of 2020. As claimant states are preoccupied with efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous worrying incidents have occurred within the maritime territory, ...
- August 1, 2020
Zambales fishermen favor strong President to end China's blockade
A 30-foot trawler named "Marvin" lies beached on a grass bank overlooking the South China Sea, idle since China's Coast Guard began driving away Philippine fishermen after a fierce standoff four years ago. Its 10-man crew ...
- May 7, 2016
PH future is in the West Philippine Sea
As US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explained, the United States rejects any People’s Republic of China (PRC) maritime claims within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone or continental shelf, and claims in waters ...
- July 17, 2020
Panatag still no-fish zone
Chinese Coast Guard vessels drove Filipino fishermen from the disputed Scarborough Shoal last week in defiance of a UN-backed court’s ruling and just days before President Duterte’s fence-mending visit to China. “What ...
- October 12, 2016
US admiral joins surveillance flight over West Philippine Sea
A top US Navy admiral said he joined a routine surveillance flight over the disputed South China Sea on Saturday and that the United States was committed to freedom of navigation in the region. Adm. Scott Swift, commander ...
- July 21, 2015
Creating sustainable future for West PH Sea
Last month, four medium-range missiles, launched by China’s military from that country’s mainland, were fired into the waters between the disputed Paracel Islands and the southern island-province of Hainan, according to ...
- September 22, 2020
Ex-admiral says US should defend Panatag
The United States should be willing to use military force to oppose Chinese aggression at a disputed reef off the coast of the Philippines, a former commander of US forces in the Pacific told a congressional hearing on ...
- July 15, 2016
All about fish and fishing
What can legally be said about the incursions of Chinese fishing and other vessels into Philippines waters/ The first thing, of course, is to look into the laws that govern the seas. The importance of the seas flows from ...
- June 3, 2013
Duterte: China has promised to protect PH
China has assured the Philippines that it will come to its aid in the event of external threats, according to President Duterte. "China said, 'We will protect you. We will not allow the Philippines to be destroyed. We are ...
- May 7, 2018
PH arbitral win: What is to be done?
We borrow a famous question asked in 1902 by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in a work of classic Marxist polemics to consider how to make the most out of the gains we won in our South China Sea (SCS) arbitral proceedings against ...
- May 29, 2021