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    • China opens cinema on disputed SCS island 

      Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, July 25, 2017, on page 12)
      Soldiers and residents on one of the islands China controls in the contested South China Sea can now relax and watch a movie after the first theater in the strategic waterway opened its doors Saturday, reports say. In its ...

    • China opens lighthouses on 2 PH reefs in Spratlys 

      Calleja, Niña P. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 11, 2015, on page A1-A20)
      China has started operating lighthouses on two reefs in the disputed West Philippine Sea, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday, as tensions in the region mount over Beijing’s maritime ambitions. The two reefs are ...

    • China out to occupy other WPS features - DND chief 

      Punongbayan, Michael; Lee-Brago, Pia; Flores, Helen; Porcalla, Delon (The Philippine Star, April 5, 2021, on page 2)
      China’s maritime militia vessels lingering in Julian Felipe Reef and the claim that the territory forms part of its Nansha Islands show Chinese intent to occupy the area in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Defense Secretary ...

    • ‘China owes us ₧33B in annual marine loss’ 

      Fernandez, Butch (BusinessMirror, June 9, 2020, on page A8-A4)
      Retired Associate Justice Antonio Carpio flatly dismissed Monday China’s claims that it owns the West Philippine Sea (WPS), as well as the whole South China Sea since ancient times. This, as former Foreign Affairs Secretary ...

    • China paper defends buildup in SCS islands 

      Global Times (The Manila Times, March 24, 2022, on page B8)
      Earlier this week, The Associated Press (AP) reported Admiral John Aquilino, United States Indo-Pacific commander, as saying on Sunday that China had militarized at least three of the several islands it built in the disputed ...

    • China paper: Phl is cute little US submissive 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Philippine Star, April 22, 2015, on page 1-16)
      Beijing claims sovereignty over most of the resource-rich and strategically important South China Sea, including areas close to other Asian nations, using vague demarcation lines that first appeared on Chinese maps in the ...

    • China photo of the day 

      (The Philippine Star, January 2, 2018, on page 5)
      To help the Philippine fishermen increase their production and improve their livelihood, China donated 100,000 fingerlings of coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus) to the Philippines, 50,000 of which arrived in Palawan last ...

    • China pivot yields 'modus vivendi' at West PH Sea 

      Delizo, Michael Joe T. (The Manila Times, November 11, 2016, on page A1-A8)
      The Duterte administration’s pivot to China will bring about a change in perception on both sides, allowing a “modus vivendi” of “peace” at the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), the country’s next ambassador to China ...

    • China plan bad news for PH fishermen 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 19, 2017, on page A3)
      China’s plan to build a permanent structure on Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea is bad news for fishermen in the coastal town of Infanta in Pangasinan province. A permanent Chinese structure there ...

    • China plans to build station on Scarborough near Zambales 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, March 18, 2017, on page 1-14)
      China plans to build the first permanent structure on a South China Sea shoal at the heart of a territorial dispute with the Philippines, in a move likely to renew concerns over Beijing’s robust assertions of its claims ...

    • China plays the victim 

      Valte, Abigail (Malaya, June 18, 2019, on page B4)
      I almost choked on my tea while reading a press release from the Chinese Embassy in Manila - whoever wrote this must've had difficulty keeping a straight face. It gave its "account" of events that transpired on June 9, ...

    • China plots fresh military exercises in South China Sea 

      Agence France-Presse (The Philippine Star, May 28, 2022, on page 11)
      China will hold naval exercises in the South China Sea on Saturday, its maritime authority said, after a week of recrimination from Western powers over its military ambitions across the Pacific region. The exercises, set ...

    • China prefers peace with PH 

      Tulfo, Ramon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 4, 2016, on page A10)
      China appreciates President Digong’s pronouncement that the country will not go to war over Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal which, based on the ruling of The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, is a part of the ...

    • China preps nuke bombers on disputed reefs 

      Mangosing, Frances; Avendaño, Christine O.; Pazzibugan, Dona Z. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 20, 2018, on page A1-A2)
      The Philippines has come within easy reach of China’s top-ofthe-line nuclear strike-capable bomber after the Chinese military demonstrated that it could operate from its artificial islands in the South China Sea, according ...

    • China presence not only in Spratlys 

      Tribdino, Raymond Gregory B. (Malaya, April 15, 2015, on page A11)
      China is not only reclaiming land around the Spratly Islands, they are also stealing our sovereignty in the digital space. This was reported by Reuters and confirmed by two anonymous sources I talked to. The Philippines ...

    • China president talks tough ahead of UN tribunal ruling 

      Torres, Estrella (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 2, 2016, on page A1-A15)
      China will never compromise on sovereignty, President Xi Jinping said Friday ahead of an international tribunal ruling over Beijing's maritime claims, as he marked the Communist Party's 95th anniversary. "No foreign ...

    • China promised not to build in disputed shoal-Yasay 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, February 24, 2017, on page 5)
      Chinese President Xi Jinping promised President Duterte that Beijing will not build structures on a rocky outcrop in the South China Sea, Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said yesterday. Yasay said the Chinese ...

    • China proposes joint probe on Recto Bank incident 

      (Malaya, June 21, 2019, on page B1-B3)
      China yesterday proposed a joint investigation with the Philippines into the ramming of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese fishing vessel earlier this month at the Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea. ...

    • China protests 'visit' to Pagasa 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Standard, April 23, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      China has lodged representations with the Philippine side following a visit by the Filipino defense and military officials in Pagasa Island, according to the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. ”This move runs counter ...

    • China protests latest US Navy mission in SCS 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Philippine Star, October 11, 2020, on page 11)
      China has dispatched ships and planes to track the US guided-missile destroyer John S. McCain as it passed near Chinese-held islands in the South China Sea. The People’s Liberation Army accused the US warship of trespassing ...