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US-China rivalry takes Apec center stage
On the official agenda, global free trade was the headline of the summit of the leaders of 21 member-economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Manila this week. But the rivalry of the region’s superpowers—the ...
- November 20, 2015
Vietnam offers Spratlys soverignty cruise
Vietnam is offering scores of patriotic citizens the holiday of a lifetime with a cruise to some of Asia’s most hotly contested islands, in a move likely to stoke its simmering dispute with Beijing over South China Sea ...
- June 6, 2015
Duterte to China: Resolve sea row based on int'l law
President Rodrigo Duterte told a senior Chinese official that disputes in the South China Sea must be resolved in accordance with international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), Malacañang ...
- September 13, 2020
China territorial aggression hit
While the nation marked National Heroes Day on Monday, about 500 people from various sectors massed outside the Chinese consulate in Makati City and condemned China’s “territorial aggression.” Led by former National Security ...
- September 1, 2015
Rody to Sino envoy: We're concerned about your ships
President Rodrigo Duterte has told the Chinese ambassador that the Philippines was concerned about the large number of Chinese vessels at Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef and reasserted the international arbitral tribunal’s ...
- March 26, 2021
China's land reclamation alarms US senators
Leading US senators expressed alarm on Thursday at the scale and speed of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea and said a formal US strategy was needed to slow or stop the work. In a letter to US Secretary State ...
- March 21, 2015
PH, China restart talks on sea row
China and the Philippines agreed on Thursday that disputes in the South China Sea were not the sum total of their relations, and that the two countries would restore diplomatic and defense consultations, Chinese Vice Foreign ...
- October 21, 2016
Del Rosario: Raise PH victory vs China to global community
The Philippines must raise to the global community its landmark victory against China’s incursions in the West Philippine Sea, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Tuesday. Del Rosario led the Philippine ...
- July 15, 2020
Du30: I trust China won't build on shoal
President Duterte on Thursday said he trusted China would not build anything on Panatag Shoal because he was given its “word of honor” and Beijing would not want to jeopardize a new friendship. “Let me tell now, I was ...
- March 24, 2017
Du30 won’t raise Hague ruling again, says Palace
Chinese President Xi Jinping stood pat on his country’s rejection of the international arbitral award favoring the Philippines, but assured President Duterte that China will avoid “provocative acts” in the South China Sea, ...
- August 31, 2019