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US defense chief visits China as tensions rise
US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in Beijing on his first ever visit to China on Tuesday, aiming to find room for military cooperation as security tensions between the two superpowers edge higher. With Washington ...
- June 27, 2018
PH steps up island devt in China sea
The Philippines will follow the lead of China and Vietnam and develop islands under its control in the disputed South China Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday. “My plan of action is also to develop all ...
- January 10, 2018
Deteriorating US-China relations
The deteriorating situation in the South China Sea (SCS) is in reaction to the increased US activities in the area. Specifically, there are two aspects that could serve as flashpoints in US-China relations. First, the ...
- September 5, 2020
China: Reclamation almost done
Despite calls by the united states and the Philippines for China to stop its reclamation activities in the disputed West Philippine Sea, Beijing announced that it is about to complete some of its land reclamation in the ...
- June 17, 2015
China angered by young campers on disputed isle
BEIJING expressed anger Monday after a group of young Filipinos camped out on Pagasa, an island in the South China Sea that both China and the Philippines claim as their own.
The voyage of the group, which calls itself ...
- December 29, 2015
China told: keep out of Spratlys
President Rodrigo Duterte has asked China to stay away from the Philippine claimed the Spratly Islands, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano told his pre-departure news conference Friday night. Before he took the four-hour ...
- June 3, 2018
High Crime in the High Seas
At 5 p.m. on July 12, The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, at 117 years old, the oldest global institution for the settlement of international disputes, gave the Philippines its biggest legal victory ever in any ...
- July 15, 2016
Lipstick on a pig
Chinese officials may spout off about cooperation and friendship, but as long as Beijing refuses to recognize our legitimate claims over the West Philippine Sea, Filipinos will continue to regard them with suspicion—and ...
- July 17, 2020
Rody hailed for calling out China on WPS
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario on Friday hailed President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s call for China to temper its behavior in the West Philippine Sea amid reports that Beijing warned a Philippine military ...
- July 18, 2018
Sea code of conduct seen in August
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations is optimistic that it can complete a working framework for a Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea with Beijing by August, the Foreign Affairs Department ...
- May 3, 2017