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Are we China's slaves? Filipino fishermen ask
A video report that showed Filipino fishermen watching helplessly as Chinese Coast Guard personnel seized part of their catch at Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal should move the government to file a protest with Beijing or even ...
- June 9, 2018
Lack of resolve
President Duterte has a standard response to critics who point out that despite the government’s deferential stance toward China, it has virtually taken over several reefs and islets within the Philippines’ exclusive ...
- May 10, 2018
Universal Records denies participation in controversial China-PH COVID-19 solidarity song ‘Iisang Dagat’
Universal Records has distanced itself from the controversial China-Philippines “friendship song,” “Iisang Dagat,” stressing that it had no participation in the “production and promotion” of the said project. The record ...
- April 29, 2020
Hanoi to Beijing: Pull out missiles
Vietnam has requested China to withdraw its weapons from disputed territory in the South China Sea, while security experts have urged the Philippine government to upgrade the country’s defenses in the Spratly archipelago ...
- April 10, 2018
Duterte stand on sea row needs review-Carpio
The recent Social Weather Stations poll showing that four of five Filipinos rebuffed the government’s approach to the territorial dispute with China proved that President Rodrigo Duterte’s policy was contrary to the public’s ...
- July 16, 2018
Coast Guard seizes Chinese dredger for illegal entry
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized a Chinese dredger for “illegal and unauthorized presence” in Philippine waters more than a year after it was cleared to leave the country, the Coast ...
- January 30, 2021
‘What’s wrong with China sending research ships to Benham Rise?’
“What is harmful about having a research ship there?”. National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon posed the question to reporters on Wednesday, defending the Government’s decision to allow China to send ships to Benham ...
- March 30, 2017
Chinese ships moored at Julian Felipe Reef since November 2020
The presence of Chinese vessels at a reef within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which had aroused the concern of President Rodrigo Duterte, was detected by a US-based research company as early as November ...
- March 27, 2021
Reported Chinese waste dumping in EEZ angers lawmakers
True or not, a report that Chinese ships have not only been intruding into the West Philippine Sea but have also been dumping raw sewage into the waters in the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has angered lawmakers. ...
- July 14, 2021
'Too much, too soon,' expert warns on PH-China sea study
Batongbacal was referring to an announcement made by President Rodrigo Duterte last week in Marawi City and later clarified by Malacañang spokesperson Harry Roque, that the administration was considering China’s offer to ...
- March 4, 2018