Browsing Aquatic News Index by Author "Katigbak, Jose"

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    • China avoiding clash with US in south china sea 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, May 19, 2016, on page 15)
      China is willing to tolerate higher levels of tension in the South China Sea in pursuit of its interests but seeks to avoid direct conflict with the United States, the Pentagon said. China is using coercive tactics short ...

    • China militarization in SCS to have consequences - US 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, May 5, 2018, on page 1-3)
      The White House warned China on Thursday of consequences over its growing militarization in the South China Sea. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the comment when asked about US intelligence reports that there ...

    • 'Chinese coast guard regularly intimidates Pinoy fishers in SCS' 

      Katigbak, Jose; Romero, Alexis; Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, March 29, 2019, on page 2)
      What’s happening to Filipino fishermen in the South China Sea? At about the same time as a senior Philippine military officer denied reports Filipino fishermen were being harassed by Chinese security forces in the vicinity ...

    • Chinese exclusion zone looms in Spratlys? 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, March 19, 2016, on page 1-6)
      The United States is worried about the possibility of China declaring an exclusion zone in the South China Sea if it loses in a maritime arbitration case filed by Manila before an international court. Admiral John Richardson, ...

    • CNN gets rare look at Chinese militarization of SCS 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, August 12, 2018, on page 3)
      A US Navy reconnaissance plane flying over the Spratly island chain in the South China Sea where Beijing has turned low-lying coral reefs into military garrisons got warned six times by the Chinese military to leave “Chinese ...

    • 'Duterte should listen to Pinoys, not to Chinese envoy' 

      Lee-Brago, Pia; Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, July 26, 2018, on page 6)
      President Duterte and his officials should “cast aside their fear of displeasing China” and listen to Filipinos and not to the Chinese ambassador, former foreign affairs chief Albert del Rosario said on Tuesday. “We need ...

    • No need to be nasty, Rody tells Chinese patrols 

      Mendez, Christina; Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, August 19, 2018, on page 10)
      With the Philippines and China supposedly friends, the Chinese military does not have to be “nasty” by threatening Filipinos conducting maritime patrols in the West Philippine Sea especially around the Spratlys where the ...

    • Phl envoy: US should have stopped China 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, February 7, 2018, on page 6)
      The United States should have stopped Beijing from constructing military installations in the South China Sea from the start, particularly in areas within the 200-mile exclusive economic zone of the Philippines, said ...

    • Phl eyes talks with China sans preconditions 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, September 18, 2016, on page 1-9)
      The Philippines is quietly making arrangements through diplomatic channels for bilateral talks with China without any preconditions to discuss their competing claims in the South China Sea and West Philippine Sea, Foreign ...

    • Pinoys fear armed conflict with China; Phl peace index down 

      Katigbak, Jose; Flores, Helen (The Philippine Star, June 19, 2015, on page 12)
      Eight in 10 Filipinos fear possible armed conflict between the Philippines and China over the disputed Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed. The level of "worry about ...

    • Taiwan's peace call on claimants of disputed territories welcomed 

      Katigbak, Jose; Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, May 28, 2015, on page 2)
      The US on Tuesday welcomed Taiwan’s call on all claimants to disputed shoals, reefs, rocks and islets in the South China Sea and West Philippine Sea to exercise restraint, refrain from unilateral actions that could escalate ...

    • US to china: Clarify your Boundary 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, April 17, 2015, on page 1-16)
      The United States has called on China to clarify or adjust its controversial nine-dash boundary line in the South China Sea to conform to international law and insisted all maritime claims be derived from land features, ...

    • US to China: Prove your claim 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, June 29, 2015, on page 1-12)
      If China can prove indisputably it owns the islets, shoals and reeds that are at the heart of a dispute with the Philippines and other neighbors, the US will support it 100 percent, Deputy US Secretary of State Antony ...

    • US to China: Return our underwater drone 

      Katigbak, Jose; Laude, Jaime (The Philippine Star, December 18, 2016, on page 1-9)
      The Pentagon on Friday demanded the return of an unmanned US underwater vehicle (UUV) which China seized in the South China Sea about 50 miles northwest of Subic Bay. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the UUV was unlawfully ...

    • US vows to keep peace amid South China Sea row 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, November 7, 2015, on page 9)
      Expressing concern about China's activities in the South China Sea, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said it's American military power that keeps the peace in the region and the United States intends to continue playing ...

    • US warns China 'throwin elbows' 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, June 3, 2015, on page 1-7)
      President Barack Obama has said that while some of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea may be legitimate, Beijing “shouldn’t just try to establish that based on throwing elbows and pushing people out of the ...

    • US, China not budging on SCS dispute 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, November 11, 2018, on page 16)
      The US and China stood firm on their positions in the South China Sea (SCS) row, but stressed the need to tamp down tension and said cooperation was the only option to peace. Senior diplomatic and military leaders from ...

    • US, Phl agree on 5 base locations under EDCA 

      Laude, Jaime; Brago, Pia; Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, March 20, 2016, on page 1-10)
      The Philippines has agreed to allow the United States to use five military bases where US troops and supplies can be stationed under a security deal agreed amid rising tensions with China’s excessive claims in the South ...

    • US: China has mobile artillery on reclaimed isle 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, May 30, 2015, on page 12)
      The United States said yesterday China had placed mobile artillery weapons systems on a reclaimed island in the disputed South China Sea, a development that Republican Sen. John McCain called “disturbing and escalatory.” ...

    • We blew up man-made islands before - US 

      Katigbak, Jose (The Philippine Star, June 2, 2018, on page 1-4)
      The US military has a lot of experience gained in World War II blowing up small man-made islands in the Western Pacific, Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told Pentagon reporters on Thursday, but denied he was ...