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DFA chief: Nix deals with China companies tied to WPS buildup
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday said he would recommend the termination of government contracts with Chinese companies involved in China’s artificial island building on maritime features in the West Philippine ...
- August 29, 2020
South China Sea is ours
It’s comforting to note that our government officials have become aggressive over our sovereign rights over the South China Sea. For so long, we seemed to have kowtowed to China’s aggressive claim of owning the territory. ...
- July 16, 2020
Philippines leads the way in ‘9-dash-line’ dispute vs China
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is set to forge ahead with finishing the Code of Conduct with China over the South China Sea (SCS) by 2021. Vietnam’s goal for ASEAN to arrive at an agreement with China ...
- May 20, 2020
Duterte's SCS ruling pitch highlights speech at UNGA
President Duterte’s much-awaited debut before the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) late Tuesday night (early morning Manila time) was marked with a strong affirmation of the Philippines’s rights in the South ...
- September 24, 2020
Welcome to China
Top officials and visitors who went to the Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea this week received a surprise on their mobile phones. “Welcome to China,” one message said as their phones went on roaming. “Welcome to ...
- June 11, 2020
7 of 10 Filipinos want Duterte gov't to assert right at sea
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. this week said a 2016 decision by a United Nations tribunal rejects China’s claim to more than 80% of the South China Sea is nonnegotiable. The Department of Foreign Affairs ...
- July 15, 2020
Del Rosario repeats SCS plea
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario on Tuesday reiterated his call on President Rodrigo Duterte to bring up for enforcement before the United Nations the Philippines’ 2016 arbitral victory against China ...
- September 23, 2020
President asserts arbitral award rejecting China's claims in SCS
In an unprecedented move to assert the country’s position on the South China Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte raised the 2016 arbitral award that rejected Beijing’s excessive nine-dash-line claim before the United Nations ...
- September 23, 2020
Doublespeak blurs our position on SCS
Was President Duterte informing the United Nations merely for the record, or to lay the basis for an action plan, on the 2016 arbitral award in favor of the Philippines vs China affirming his country’s sovereign rights in ...
- September 29, 2020
Sea dispute won't be resolved anytime soon - Roque
THE PHILIPPINE government does not expect an immediate resolution of the South China Sea dispute despite President Rodrigo R. Duterte invoking the Hague ruling in its favor during his first United Nations (UN) address early ...
- September 25, 2020