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PH boats fishing outside Panatag, US think tank claims
Filipino fishermen have been fishing just outside, not inside, the lagoon of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, a Washington, D.C. think tank claims, citing recent satellite images. On its website, the Asia Maritime Transparency ...
- November 3, 2016
China damaged reefs in disputed sea - US official
The United States will work with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and other countries with claims to the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) to address the colossal destruction perpetuated by China on ...
- March 30, 2016
Palace: Cabinet execs to discuss boat sinking
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has warned the Philippines against politicizing the boat’s sinking, which it described as a “ordinary maritime incident.” The Filipino boat’s crew — rescued by a Vietnamese vessel — has claimed ...
- June 17, 2019
Arbitration suit vs China: Aquino 3rd regime and the US' big blunder
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 ...
- December 27, 2021
China tells PH, Asean to stand up vs West
The Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries as well as China should stand together and reject “non-regional forces” that don’t want stability in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), Chinese Foreign Minister ...
- July 26, 2017
US presidents and the West Philippine Sea
I do not think we should be dependent on auguries at all, considering that it is our exclusive economic zone and our continental shelves that are at stake. Whether the Potus be Trump or Biden, what credibility and ascendancy ...
- November 9, 2020
Overcoming orchestrated conflicts in South China Sea
The Whitsun Reef, known in the Philippines as the Julian Felipe Reef, is part of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. In Manila, the reef narrative has been promoted, particularly by that part of local ...
- April 12, 2021
Chinese presence near island 'illegal'
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday declared the presence of Chinese vessels near Pag-asa (Thitu) Island in the Kalayaan Island Group “illegal.” The DFA said Pag-asa Island is part of the Kalayaan or Spratly ...
- April 5, 2019
US will defend PH in a South China Sea war? Don't bet on it
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 ...
- March 4, 2019
US Navy carriers resume drills in South China Sea
Two aircraft carriers of the United States Navy have resumed exercises in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), marking the second time this month they entered the highly contested waters and potentially renewing ...
- July 18, 2020