Browsing The Manila Times by Author "Tiglao, Rigoberto"

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    • Aquino 3rd arbitration suit induced Chinese moves on Ayungin Shoal 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, November 22, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      It is the unexpected ruling in 2016 on the Aquino 3rd regime's arbitration suit against China that continues to encourage the Chinese to block Philippine boats from sending supplies to military personnel in Ayungin Shoal, ...

    • Arbitration suit vs China: Aquino 3rd regime and the US' big blunder 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, December 27, 2021, on page -A5)
      This is the second instalment (the first was published last Friday) of Chapter 9 of my book, Debacle: The Aquino Regime's Scarborough Fiasco and the South China Sea Arbitration Deception, which discusses this development ...

    • Arroyo moved to save Boracay; Aquino made it a cesspool 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, April 4, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      After more than two years of study and on-the-ground investigation by various Cabinet members, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo made a bold move to prevent Boracay from further environmental degradation even if it would ...

    • At last, the only rational policy for our disputes in the Spratlys: Fortify our islands and reefs there! 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, June 1, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      The opposition’s allegation that President Duterte has been kowtowing to China on our territorial disputes is unadulterated hogwash, so grossly ignorant of what sovereignty in the South China Sea entails. After four ...

    • Blowback: China's artificial islands 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, December 24, 2021, on page A1-A5)
      The highly respected retired UP professor Clarita Carlos in her Facebook account expressed outrage over the transformation from 2013 to 2015 of the seven reefs in the Spratlys that China has occupied since 1988, into ...

    • Boracay: A watershed test case for the Republic's rule of law 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, April 6, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      It is totally indisputable that the whole of Boracay island is state property, and there can be no private ownership of any land there. This was the categorical decision of the Supreme Court in 2008 (G.R. 167707). Its ...

    • Carpio continues to mislead us on South China Sea issue 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, May 30, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      I had expected acting Chief Justice Antonio Caprio to respond to my conclusion in my column Monday that he, together with Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo, and former national security adviser Roilo Golez made a fool ...

    • Revealed: Marcos’ secret operations to take over entire Spratly archipelago 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, August 13, 2018, on page A1-A4)
      The strongman Ferdinand Marcos ordered secret military operations in 1970 to 1971, and in 1978 to take over the entire now hotly disputed Spratly group of islands in the South China Sea. Marcos apparently decided to undertake ...

    • Vietnam could be more serious threat to us in the South China Sea dispute 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, August 14, 2017, on page A4)
      Vietnam rocked what would have been the normally uneventful meeting of Asean foreign ministers last week by unexpectedly asking the body to include in its communique its concern over “island building and militarization” ...

    • Yes, Senate must investigate how Aquino, Trillanes and Del Rosario lost Panatag 

      Tiglao, Rigoberto (The Manila Times, June 18, 2018, on page A1-A4)
      Sen. Loren Legarda, the chairman of the Senate’s committee on foreign relations, said the other day that she welcomed a probe into the country’s handling of its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. That ...