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China warns of penalties vs foreigners in West PH Sea
China has warned of penalties against foreigners caught violating its sovereignty over its territorial seas, including the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). State-run Xinhua news agency reported that the Chinese Supreme ...
- August 3, 2016
Most Filipinos want sea claims asserted
A significant majority of Filipinos believe that the Duterte administration should assert Philippine sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) based on a 2016 international arbitration ruling, according ...
- July 13, 2018
It’s official: Duterte renames Benham Rise to ‘PH Rise’
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order officially changing the name of Benham Rise, an undersea region that is part of Philippine territory, to “Philippine Rise,” months after reports of Chinese activity ...
- May 23, 2017
Sea code of conduct ready this yr – Yasay
The long-delayed framework for the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea may be finally completed by the middle of the year, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. said on Wednesday. The Cabinet official said that the ...
- January 12, 2017
Yellow zombie ideas on our China dispute
President Duterte’s comments on our disputes with China over the South China Sea in his recent State of the Nation Address (SONA) have resuscitated Yellow zombie ideas. That phrase was coined by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, ...
- July 31, 2020
Generals should shut up on international disputes
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana in a phone call disputed the headline of my column last Monday that said he “lied on new illegal structures” at Union Banks, where Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef is. He ...
- April 16, 2021
Lorenzana also changes tune, hits China's Spratlys claim
China has been relying on an “imagined historical claim” over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Sunday, as he also stepped up his rhetoric against Beijing. This was after ...
- April 15, 2019
US Navy confirms real intent of PH arbitration vs China
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 ...
- November 25, 2019
The feared joint development with China
Pundits and politicians fear the joint development that the Duterte administration is exploring with China in the disputed areas of the South China Sea. Entering into such agreement, these folks say, would “legitimize” the ...
- June 5, 2018
Duterte tells China: stop fishing in shoal
In separate remarks before typhoon victims in Cagayan and Isabela, Duterte said he couldn’t let Chinese fishermen prowl at Panatag Shoal, citing the July 12 ruling of a United Nations-backed arbitration tribunal that the ...
- October 24, 2016