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Solons urge protest over PH reef incident
An opposition lawmaker warned on Wednesday that it was only a matter of time before China deployed warplanes on its artificial islands in Philippine waters, after the Inquirer published surveillance photos showing Chinese ...
- April 19, 2018
'PH a willing victim of China in sea dispute’
Two years after winning an international arbitral court ruling against China, the Philippines has become a “willing victim” of the Asian behemoth in the South China Sea disputes, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario ...
- July 13, 2018
Duterte: China has promised to protect PH
China has assured the Philippines that it will come to its aid in the event of external threats, according to President Duterte. "China said, 'We will protect you. We will not allow the Philippines to be destroyed. We are ...
- May 7, 2018
Drilon urges review of admin policy on China amid sea row
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday urged the Duterte administration to review its “policy of appeasement and accommodation” toward China, as the supposed closer ties between Manila and Beijing had not ...
- June 15, 2018
PH outdone by rivals in developing reefs
As China steps up the transformation of seven reefs in the Spratly archipelago into sprawling military outposts, other claimants have also strengthened their stakes in the South China Sea, except the Philippines, which has ...
- April 8, 2018
ASEAN urges restraint in South China Sea
Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), at the end of a three-day meeting in Sydney, also tackled the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and agreed to work more closely to tackle the growing menace of ...
- March 19, 2018
Lack of resolve
President Duterte has a standard response to critics who point out that despite the government’s deferential stance toward China, it has virtually taken over several reefs and islets within the Philippines’ exclusive ...
- May 10, 2018
Hanoi to Beijing: Pull out missiles
Vietnam has requested China to withdraw its weapons from disputed territory in the South China Sea, while security experts have urged the Philippine government to upgrade the country’s defenses in the Spratly archipelago ...
- April 10, 2018
Duterte stand on sea row needs review-Carpio
The recent Social Weather Stations poll showing that four of five Filipinos rebuffed the government’s approach to the territorial dispute with China proved that President Rodrigo Duterte’s policy was contrary to the public’s ...
- July 16, 2018
Carpio: World naval powers enforcing Hague ruling
President Rodrigo Duterte may have chosen to set aside an international tribunal ruling that invalidated China’s claim to nearly all of the South China Sea, but the world’s naval powers are enforcing it, according to acting ...
- July 11, 2018