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Engage people re West Philippine Sea dispute
The most recent incident happened in Baja de Masinloc (or what is generally known as Scarborough or Panatag Shoal) where three Chinese Coast Guard ships have been deployed for the sole purpose of harassing the local ...
- May 16, 2015
Legislation pushed for joint WPS exploration
For the country’s sovereign rights to be guaranteed and protected in any joint exploration deal that it will enter into with other governments, including China, on the extraction of oil and gas resources at the West ...
- August 19, 2020
China is not militarizing South China Sea – Premier Li
China is not militarizing the South China Sea, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, although he acknowledged that defense equipment in islands in the disputed waterway had been placed there to maintain “freedom of navigation”. ...
- March 25, 2017
Mattis to visit Beijing as Taiwan, South China Sea tensions rise
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has accused China of “intimidation and coercion” in the South China Sea, is visiting Beijing this week as the countries increasingly spar over US arms sales to Taiwan and Beijing’s ...
- June 25, 2018
Wealth-sharing with China eyed
The Philippines is willing to consider a joint mineral exploration with China in the disputed South China Sea despite overlapping claims of the area. President Duterte has earlier announced he is open to “sharing” resources ...
- March 25, 2017
Chinese vessels inch closer to Pagasa Island
Dozens of Chinese vessels have recently been frequenting the waters near Pagasa (Thitu) Island in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), a military commander reported on Sunday, Nov. 21. Vice Admiral Ramil Roberto Enriquez, commander ...
- November 22, 2021
DFA summons China envoy over navy ship's intrusion in PH waters
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday summoned China's envoy to Manila after a People’s Liberation Army – Navy (PLAN) vessel was caught in “illegal incursions” in the Sulu Sea in January and February this year. ...
- March 16, 2022
Oil, gas from disputed sea crucial to PH - Marcos
The country needs to find ways to pursue energy exploration in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) as whatever resources it can obtain from the disputed sea are crucial to the nation. President Marcos stressed this on Thursday, ...
- December 2, 2022
ASEAN militaries commit to South China Sea peace
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Rey Leonardo Guerrero confirmed over the weekend that he and nine other chiefs of Defense Forces of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reaffirmed ...
- March 12, 2018
PH takes China missiles seriously
The Philippine government on Friday assured that it will take “every and all diplomatic actions” to protect its interest following reports that China installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles on three ...
- May 5, 2018