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US patrol deliberately avoided inflaming tensions
The US Navy deliberately avoided military drills or other actions that could have further inflamed tensions with Beijing during a patrol last week near islands China has built in the South China Sea, US officials said. “We ...
- November 8, 2015
China wants naval drills with Southeast Asia in S. China Sea
China’s defense minister said on Friday that he is willing to hold joint drills in the disputed South China Sea with Southeast Asian countries, covering accidental encounters and search and rescue, striking a conciliatory ...
- October 17, 2015
G7 hits large-scale reclamation at sea
The leaders of the Group of Seven nations issued a communiqué on Monday voicing opposition to island-building and other coercive activities in the West Philippine Sea, South China Sea and East China Sea. “We strongly oppose ...
- June 10, 2015
China lighthouses beckon in Spratlys
The next time the United States sends warships by China’s man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, officers aboard will have to decide how, if at all, they will engage with a pair of giant lighthouses that Beijing ...
- October 19, 2015
China: Up to Phl to heal rift over arbitration case
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the Philippines' case against China at an arbitration tribunal over rival claims in the South China Sea had strained relations between Beijing and Manila, and that it was up to the ...
- November 12, 2015
US: China has mobile artillery on reclaimed isle
The United States said yesterday China had placed mobile artillery weapons systems on a reclaimed island in the disputed South China Sea, a development that Republican Sen. John McCain called “disturbing and escalatory.” ...
- May 30, 2015
China to Phl: return to bilateral talks
China called on the Philippines yesterday to withdraw a case it has filed at a UN arbitration tribunal over rival claims in the South China Sea and return to bilateral negotiations. Beijing has for years insisted that ...
- July 23, 2015
Phl protests China's ramming of fishing boats in Panatag
The government protested Wednesday the international ramming of three Philippine fishing boats by a Chinese coast guard vessel on Jan. 29 and the destructive and illegal harvesting of giant clams in Panatag Shoal, also ...
- February 6, 2015