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Overcoming orchestrated conflicts in South China Sea
The Whitsun Reef, known in the Philippines as the Julian Felipe Reef, is part of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. In Manila, the reef narrative has been promoted, particularly by that part of local ...
- April 12, 2021
China war games: PH on guard
China will conduct a military exercise in the South China Sea next Monday and Tuesday as tensions remain high over the presence of more than 200 Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea, prompting Manila to send daily ...
- March 29, 2021
PH protests Chinese ships in WPS
The Philippines has expressed concern that some 220 vessels, believed to be manned by Chinese maritime militia personnel, were spotted on March 7 in the disputed South China Sea, the latest example of tensions in the crucial ...
- March 22, 2021
Peaceful end to sea row sought
Geopolitical experts, including former foreign ministers, from the United States, Australia, India, and Japan called for a peaceful approach and compliance to international law to avoid military confrontation amidst the ...
- July 16, 2021
Pompeo to China: SCS bullying is illegal
China's insistence that it owns rich resources in most parts of the South China Sea and its bullying of neighbors in order to control them are illegal, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said. Pompeo’s statement released on Tuesday, ...
- July 15, 2020
The ghost of the 2012 Scarborough Shoal stand-off
Once again, the enigmatic and massive presence of Chinese fishing vessels that are believed to be manned by Chinese maritime militia are in the Philippine Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ), particularly in the Julian Felipe ...
- April 14, 2021
US warship tests ‘freedom’ at sea
A US Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed through waters near the Paracel islands in the South China Sea, challenging China’s claim to the area, the Navy has said. The USS Barry undertook the so-called “freedom of navigation ...
- May 1, 2020
Navy protests Chinese survey
The Philippine Navy will request that a diplomatic protest be filed over a Chinese vessel’s alleged surveying activities at Recto Bank or Reed Bank, its chief Vice Admiral Giovanni Carlo Bacordo said Monday. Bacordo told ...
- August 11, 2020
China harassment of oil-exploring boats signal to claimants–AMTI
China’s harassment of Malaysia’s ongoing oil exploration in its coastal waters—but which Beijing deems as within the vast maritime area that it disputes in the South China Sea—has reinvented the norm and set new rules ...
- May 4, 2020
China plots fresh military exercises in South China Sea
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 ...
- May 28, 2022