Browsing The Manila Times by Name "Obama, Barack"
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AFP Chief lied on new 'illegal structures' at Union Banks
(The Manila Times,April 12, 2021 , on page A1-A5)Or perhaps Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana was just fed the wrong information or just ignorant of the Spratly Islands dispute, when he claimed last April 1 that the Chinese had built new illegal ... -
Arbitration ruling opened us to Chinese or Vietnamese military aggression in South China Sea
(The Manila Times,July 20, 2020 , on page A1-A5)It is sickening for the previous Yellow regime, especially its Foreign secretary Albert del Rosario, and just recently President Rodrigo Duterte’s present Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries to be flag-waving in claiming ... -
China OK's adoption of sea code
(The Manila Times,September 6, 2012 , on page A1-A2)China promised on Wednesday to ensure freedom of navigation in the tense West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) and told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton it was willing to work on a code of conduct to manage disputes. ... -
Duterte repeats China war threat
(The Manila Times,May 24, 2017 , on page A1-A2)President Rodrigo Duterte has repeated before Russian television China’s threat of war if the Philippines insisted on drilling for oil in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) in Beijing. In an interview with Moscow-based ... -
New marine parks named at Chile sea summit
(The Manila Times,October 6, 2015 , on page C4)The United States and partner countries were to announce new marine reserves on Monday at the start of a major conference in Chile on protecting the world's oceans. Chile is hosting the Our Ocean conference in the picturesque ... -
Obama heads to oil spill disaster zone
(The Manila Times,June 14, 2010 , on page B3)US and British leaders sought to ease tensions amid sharpened rhetoric over the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as President Barack Obama readied to take matters into his own hands. As political pressure mounts ... -
Obama warns China: Don't 'throw elbows'
(The Manila Times,June 3, 2015 , on page A1-A8)US President Barack Obama on Monday weighed in on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, urging regional powers, particularly China, to respect the law and stop "throwing elbows." As several Asian regional powers ... -
Palace: PH sticking to alliance with US
(The Manila Times,May 22, 2018 , on page A1-A2)Despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s “independent” foreign policy, the Philippines is not abandoning its traditional alliance with the United States, Malacañang said on Monday. Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. reiterated ... -
Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling was a terrible mistake
(The Manila Times,July 21, 2020 , on page A4)Recently, the United States reassured its Southeast Asian allies that it remains committed to protecting their sovereign rights in the South China (West Philippine) Sea. Let’s see if it actually puts its money where its ... -
Public agendas and private interests in ICC/South China Sea
(The Manila Times,April 8, 2019 , on page A4-A5)In February, the US-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) released a heavily promoted report alleging that China sought to intimidate Filipinos into ceasing construction work on the Pag-Asa Island (Thitu) in ... -
Revealed: The crux of our SCS dispute — natural gas
(The Manila Times,October 5, 2020 , on page A1-A11)The flag-waving by the Yellows, the likes of United States toady Albert del Rosario and Vietnamese-linked Antonio Carpio, claiming that they are noble patriots upholding Philippine sovereignty against an expansionist China ... -
Suit vs China: Oligarchs' last resort to salvage their gas project in Spratlys
(The Manila Times,July 24, 2020 , on page A1-A5)A disgusting penchant of the Yellows, even its oligarchs, has been to claim that their troubles are not just their own, but of others. The Lopez oligarchs claim their fight is that of ABS-CBN Corp.’s 11,000 employees and ... -
US faces stiff China pushback in S. China Sea: experts
(The Manila Times,January 26, 2017 , on page A6)The US president and his team have made much of their desire to put Beijing in its place, including in the strategically vital waterway, which China claims almost entirely and where it has reclaimed — and fortified — ... -
US Navy confirms real intent of PH arbitration vs China
(The Manila Times,November 25, 2019 , on page A1-A6)The US Navy last week, in its actions and official statements, in effect revealed what was really one of the real aims of the Philippines’ arbitration suit that President Aquino 3rd and his foreign secretary Albert del ... -
US will defend PH in a South China Sea war? Don't bet on it
(The Manila Times,March 4, 2019 , on page A1-A5)In another instance of Philippine media’s boundless faith in the country’s former colonial master, nearly all newspapers the other day banner-headlined US Secretary of State Michael Richard Pompeo’s claim that America will ... -
Vietnam: Proof that "arbitral victory" is a colossal sham (First of 2 parts)
(The Manila Times,July 12, 2021 , on page A1-A12)There is incontrovertible proof that what the Yellows claim as the country's "victory" in the compulsory arbitration the Aquino regime brought against China in 2013 is fraudulent: Vietnam claims the Spratlys (Truong Sa to ... -
West PH Sea critical to US security
(The Manila Times,May 28, 2015 , on page A1-A8)The situation in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) is critical to the national security interest of the United States, the White House has said. “The President [Barack Obama] has often talked about how critically ... -
Will the US help us in a fight with China?
(The Manila Times,September 2, 2020 , on page A1-A5)Is Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. right to claim that the United States will come to our aid in case China attacks our vessels in disputed areas in the South China Sea? The short answer: maybe, if Chinese forces ...