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Fish: the overlooked destabilizer in the South China Sea
South China Sea tensions will rise in the long-term as China exhausts its near-shore fisheries and continues to push outward to secure further stocks. In Asia, consumption of fish will increase with population and ...
- February 15, 2016
China will of course merely ignore you
The latest geopolitical development in the tension-filled South China Sea is Beijing’s installation of ballistic missiles launching pads in three atolls in the West Philippine Sea—Zamora, Kagitingan and Panganiban Reefs—all ...
- May 7, 2018
Maritime convulsion in the 'Asean' seas
At no other time in history do some Asean countries face several maritime challenges than during this second decade of the 21st century. All because of the uses of the South China (West Philippine) Sea and its resources – ...
- May 26, 2015
Pag-asa Island? Oops, arbitration award ruled it’s just a rock
Our Pag-Asa Island in the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), as well as three other features that Marcos had called islands when he annexed the area in 1978 through his Presidential Decree 1596, are all in the Spratly Islands, ...
- April 8, 2019
Arbitration 'award': A P1-billion useless piece of paper
President Duterte was absolutely correct when he remarked the other night that the “award” (i.e., ruling) of the arbitration suit that the Aquino 3rd administration brought against China in 2013 was a useless “piece of ...
- May 7, 2021
Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling was a terrible mistake
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 ...
- July 21, 2020
Chinese maritime militia invasion a hoax; Duterte should fire Lorenzana and Locsin
A month after the hysterics, sadly participated in by our own Defense and Foreign Affairs secretaries, the so-called “intrusion” by 200 Chinese “maritime militia in our territory” is turning out to be a hoax. It is a hoax ...
- April 23, 2021
Arbitration ruling opened us to Chinese or Vietnamese military aggression in South China Sea
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 ...
- July 20, 2020
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
Carpio and Sison are PH's biggest liars: First of 3 parts
Former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio will go down in our history as one of the biggest liars ever, over a public discourse affecting our national interest. Only Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria ...
- May 3, 2021