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    • China reclamation using PH soil–gov 

      Macatuno, Allan (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 27, 2016, on page A6)
      China has been expanding its reclamation projects in the West Philippine Sea, using massive boulders and soil extracted from Zambales province by local mining companies, Gov. Amor Deloso said on Tuesday. Citing information ...

    • China rejects PH protest against fishing ban 

      Santos, Tina; Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2022, on page A6)
      China has rejected the Philippines’ diplomatic protest over its unilateral fishing ban in the South China Sea that extends into the West Philippine Sea. At a press conference in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry ...

    • China rejects UN mediation of sea dispute 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 20, 2013, on page A13)
      China says it has rejected the Philippines’ attempt to seek international arbitration over conflicting claims to territory in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea). Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said Tuesday ...

    • China scores win; PH lets go of bid to cite sea ruling 

      Torres, Estrella (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 26, 2016, on page A1-A17)
      Southeast Asian nations overcame days of deadlock on Monday when the Philippines dropped a request for their joint statement to mention a landmark legal ruling on the South China Sea, officials said, after objections from ...

    • China seeks military drills with Asean in disputed sea 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2018, on page A1-A6)
      China wants military exercises and energy exploration with Southeast Asian nations in disputed waters, according to a draft document, but it insists on outside countries being excluded in what analysts said was a bid to ...

    • China seeks new maritime tribunal to replace UN 

      Doronila, Amando (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 18, 2016, on page A17)
      Anticipating an adverse decision from the UN Arbitral Tribunal on its sweeping territorial claim over almost the entire South China Sea, China has declared it would establish an international maritime center as it seeks ...

    • China sees bilateral deal with new PH President 

      Torres, Estrella (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 7, 2016, on page A1-A18)
      China is looking forward to a bilateral settlement of the dispute in the South China Sea with new Philippine President, its envoy said on Thursday. Ambassador Zhao Jinhua expressed the hope that the new Philippine leader ...

    • China sends 2nd aircraft carrier off to sea trials 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 14, 2018, on page A10)
      China’s first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier started sea trials on Sunday, state media said, a landmark in Beijing’s ambitious plans to modernize its navy as the Asian giant presses its claims in disputed ...

    • China sets up US Navy 'ships' on target range 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 9, 2021, on page A5)
      China's military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships, possibly as training targets, in the desert of Xinjiang, satellite images by Maxar showed on Sunday. These mockups ...

    • China ship 'shadowing' research vessel in WPS 

      Cabalza, Dexter (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 9, 2022, on page A4)
      A Chinese coast guard vessel has been shadowing a research vessel deployed last month by the Filipino and Taiwanese scientists inside the Philippine’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine Sea. Maritime law ...

    • China ship rams Vietnam boat in South China Sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 5, 2020, on page A9)
      Vietnam has lodged an official protest with China following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat it said had been rammed by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel near islands in the disputed South China Sea. The ...

    • China ships stop passing thru PH waters 

      Andrade, Jeannette I. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 26, 2019, on page A3)
      The Western Mindanao military chief observed on Sunday that China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships have stopped passing through Philippine territorial waters following several diplomatic protests by the government. ...

    • China stand on sea row stays, say analysts 

      Dizon, Nikko (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 24, 2016, on page A19)
      Security analysts expect China to continue building its “great wall” in the South China Sea despite the Philippines’ friendliness under President Duterte and Chinese talk of giving Filipino fishermen conditional access to ...

    • China territorial aggression hit 

      Brizuela, Maricar B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 1, 2015, on page A6)
      While the nation marked National Heroes Day on Monday, about 500 people from various sectors massed outside the Chinese consulate in Makati City and condemned China’s “territorial aggression.” Led by former National Security ...

    • China testing PH resolve to keep Ayungin Shoal 

      Mangosing, Frances (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 13, 2022, on page A2-A5)
      The latest reported incidents in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea illustrate China’s capacity to control the area despite its being occupied by the Philippines through the decrepit Philippine Navy ...

    • China to build on Panatag Shoal 

      Uy, Jocelyn (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 18, 2017, on page A1-A2)
      China plans to build the first permanent structure on a South China Sea shoal at the heart of a territorial dispute with the Philippines, in a move likely to renew concerns over Beijing’s robust assertions of its claims ...

    • China to start building on reclaimed land reclaimed from disputed sea 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 17, 2015, on page A1-A8)
      First the horizontal development, now the vertical development. The foreign ministry on Tuesday said China would complete within days its land reclamation projects on disputed areas in the South China Sea in an apparent ...

    • China trains fishing militia to venture into Spratlys 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 2, 2016, on page A1-A23)
      The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan Island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into ...

    • China tried to 'physically expel' PH 

      Dizon, Nikko (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 28, 2015, on page A1-A15)
      China's blocking of Philippine ships bringing supplies to Filipino soldiers stationed at Ayungin Shoal (Second Thomas Shoal) was a deliberate move to “physically expel” the Philippines and its people from the disputed areas ...

    • China urged to prepare for war in disputed sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 6, 2016, on page A15)
      China should prepare itself for military confrontation in the South China Sea, an influential Chinese paper said on Tuesday, a week ahead of a decision by an international court on a case filed by Manila against Beijing. ...