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South China Sea arms race (1)
If there's anybody to blame for a militarily aggressive Japan, it is nobody else but China.
For the last 70 years, Japan had remained focused on protecting itself. When China unilaterally claimed the entire South China ...
- September 25, 2015
PH, China in best level of friendship
The Philippines has reached “the best of friendship” with China but would still not surrender its territorial claim in the disputed South China Sea, President Duterte declared the other day. The President has pledged to ...
- March 31, 2017
China keeps building islands on disputed sea – report
Tensions over China’s island-building in the South China Sea may have eased in the past year, but Beijing has kept busy. New satellite imagery shows China has built infrastructure covering 72 acres (28 hectares) in the ...
- December 16, 2017
We won't give up claim in West PH Sea - Malacañang
Malacañang reiterated that the government will not give up even a single inch of the country’s territory, including its claims in the disputed portions of the South China Sea. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque made the ...
- August 25, 2020
US, PH to hold war games near Spratlys
Philippine and US sailors and Marines will hold bilateral military exercises near the Spratlys Islands amid tensions over territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). The United States will send its ...
- June 19, 2015
PH to assert sovereignty over disputed sea; provocative strategy not an option
The government is determined to assert the country's sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea but is not keen on taking the " aggressive and provocative " strategy to settle the conflict with China. The meeting between ...
- January 18, 2017
Why China needs Benham Rise (2)
Even when the International Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague ruled its SCS historic claim as illegal, China refused to acknowledge the ruling. Party-List Congressman Francisco Ashley Acedillo ...
- March 20, 2017
West Philippine Sea limited to exclusive economic zone
The renamed West Philippine Sea is limited to the area covered by the country's exclusive economic zone. This was stressed yesterday by Malacañang as it said China should not to take offense on the Philippines' move to ...
- September 15, 2012
Duterte plans to raise PH flag on Pag-asa Island
President Duterte yesterday said he might go to Pag-asa Island to raise the Philippine flag there to emphasize the country’s jurisdiction in the disputed South China Sea. Although the Philippines has won its case in the ...
- April 7, 2017
Benham Rise is ours
China will not and will never dispute the Philippines’ rights over the Benham Rise continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the nation’s shore. The Chinese Foreign Ministry gave this assurance in the wake of a ...
- March 26, 2017