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    • PHL says 200 Chinese ships at disputed reef 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, March 22, 2021, on page A4)
      National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said on Sunday that eight Chinese fishing vessels were spotted in the Pagasa Island area last week just as the government reported the presence of at least 220 Chinese ...
    • Port of hope 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, June 20, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      The recent completion and inauguration of a military harbor project on Pagasa Island in the Municipality of Kalayaan, Palawan, has sparked a ray of hope within a small Filipino community there that the much-awaited undertaking ...
    • Resist China's aggression 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 23, 2020, on page A6)
      There is no end to China’s aggressive behavior toward this friendly nation. The Jiageng, said to be one of China’s top research ships, spent a week within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, according to Ryan Martinson, ...
    • Someone to watch over me 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, June 6, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      Amid the vast expanse of territorial sea waters that it protects and the country’s claims of some parts of the West Philippine Sea (WPS) being aggressively challenged, primarily by China, the Philippine Navy (PN) is stepping ...
    • Territorial waters and the presidential directive 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 26, 2019, on page 4)
      In the wake of so many protestations from some government authorities over alleged incursions of Chinese survey and warships into Philippine waters allegedly without notifying Philippines defense authorities, President ...
    • Testing the waters 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, July 19, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      With the United States and Asean’s affirmation of support for the four-year-old ruling of the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal, the Philippines should seize the initiative in “implementing” the decision, at the very ...
    • Testing the waters 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, July 19, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      With the United States and Asean’s affirmation of support for the four-year-old ruling of the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal, the Philippines should seize the initiative in “implementing” the decision, at the very ...
    • Testing the waters: Amid US and Asean’s affirmation of support for the UN arbitral tribunal ruling on disputed maritime territories, Duterte government prodded to seize the initiative 

      Acosta, Rene (BusinessMirror, July 19, 2020, on page A1-A2)
      With the United States and Asean’s affirmation of support for the four-year-old ruling of the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal, the Philippines should seize the initiative in “implementing” the decision, at the very ...
    • World opinion, naval powers will shame China in reef grab 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, March 31, 2021, on page 7)
      China’s embassy in Manila denies invasion by its maritime militia of the Philippines’ Julian Felipe Reef. Supposedly the 220 Chinese vessels are fishers sheltering from storm. The embassy even disavows the very existence ...