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WPS issue 'haunts' Lorenzana every day
The country’s issues with China over the West Philippine Sea remain a problem that haunts Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana every day. He said there is currently a stalemate on the matter of who occupies which island in ...
- December 27, 2018
China island-building still on
Washington-based think tank Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Amti-CSIS) on Thursday disproved the claims of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Philippine Foreign ...
- August 11, 2017
Duterte tells China: Temper behavior in disputed sea
President Duterte said in a rare rebuke to Beijing on Tuesday that China's claim to airspace above newly built islands and surrounding waters in the disputed South China Sea was wrong and the Chinese should not tell others ...
- August 16, 2018
The risk of downplaying Chinese gray zone operations against the Philippines
One year ago, at midnight of June 9, 2019, a Chinese fishing vessel suddenly rammed and sank a wooden Filipino fishing boat, the F/B Gim Vir 1, which was anchored at the Reed Bank. The captain of the ill-fated Gim Vir 1 ...
- June 17, 2020
China urged to prepare for war in disputed sea
China should prepare itself for military confrontation in the South China Sea, an influential Chinese paper said on Tuesday, a week ahead of a decision by an international court on a case filed by Manila against Beijing. ...
- July 6, 2016
Country to discuss China sea row with firm voice - Marcos
President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Thursday vowed to protect Philippine-claimed areas in the South China Sea by engaging China on the dispute. At a briefing with selected media, Mr. Marcos said the Philippines ...
- May 27, 2022
What China fears is democracy
Last Tuesday, Social Weather Stations released the following findings of its new survey of Filipino public opinion about China (SWS July 3-6, 2020 National Mobile Phone Survey—Report No. 3: “Stratbase ADR Institute sponsors ...
- July 18, 2020
China's Spratlys baseline plan exceeds nine-dash line
China’s plan to draw straight baselines around the Spratly Islands and declare much of South China Sea as part of its internal water closed to foreign planes and ships would further escalate tensions in the region, according ...
- March 26, 2019
Asean communiqué stalls on sea row
Southeast Asian foreign ministers failed to release a customary communiqué at the end of a high-level meeting in Manila on Saturday after what diplomats said was a lack of consensus about how to refer to disputes in the ...
- August 7, 2017
India backs Ph in China sea row
Manila seems to have found a major ally in India in its territorial dispute with China in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). In a roundtable interview with editors and staff of The Manila Times on Tuesday, Indian ...
- March 11, 2015