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Bond issue proposed to fund ships for South China Sea
A legislator on Monday proposed that the government offer up to P150 billion worth of retail bonds to help finance the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program. The next administration should ascertain ...
- January 12, 2016
‘Artificial islands to help China project offensive military power’
China will be able to project “substantial offensive military power” from artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea’s disputed Spratly Islands within months, the director of US national intelligence said. In ...
- March 12, 2018
US warns 'aggressive' Beijing in South China Sea
The United States will keep challenging Beijing’s “assertive, aggressive behavior in the South China Sea,” the US Pacific commander said on Wednesday, as tensions between two powers rise over comments by Donald Trump. Adm. ...
- December 15, 2016
Holding ground, building hope on Pag-asa Island: (First of two parts)
Chinese ships in their line of vision have become part of the daily life of Filipinos who call this speck of land smack in the middle of the South China Sea home. The island’s name means “hope” in the native tongue, and ...
- June 12, 2020
Duterte seeks deeper relations with China
The Philippines wants to expand and deepen relations with China, President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday as officials from the two countries signed four agreements in an indication of further normalization of ties despite ...
- April 16, 2017
Philippines-China energy sharing dead in the water
In perhaps the clearest sign yet of outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fruitless strategic lean toward China, his chief diplomat has announced that bilateral energy-exploration talks in the South China Sea ...
- July 1, 2022
China's challenge to PH sovereignty
For decades, our government has bowed to the impositions of foreign interests, which we have allowed to shape and dictate our policies. These have made us weak and vulnerable. And yet, we declare in our 1987 Constitution ...
- June 21, 2015
China to patrol disputed sea
China will conduct its "routine" fishery patrols in the disputed Kalayaan (Spratly) Islands and Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) amid tensions with its neighbors over the ownership ...
- February 26, 2013
Fisherfolk group slams govt for inaction in kagitingan Reef
The militant fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas on Friday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte and the Armed Forces of the Philippines for allowing China to convert the Kagitingan Reef, ...
- January 6, 2018
US flies B-52 bombers over contested waters amid soured ties with China
The US military flew B-52 bombers in the vicinity of the South China Sea this week, US officials told Reuters, a move that is likely to cause anger in Beijing amid heightened tensions between the two countries. Lieutenant ...
- September 28, 2018