Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Author "Loja, Melissa"

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    • The great reset in the Spratlys dispute 

      Loja, Melissa; Bagares, Romel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 12, 2021, on page A9)
      In 1951, the United States convened the San Francisco Peace Conference to discuss the fate of the Spratlys Islands. The Philippines, led by Carlos P. Romulo, took part in the conference but his delegation did not register ...

    • PH arbitral win: What is to be done? 

      Loja, Melissa; Bagares, Romel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 29, 2021, on page A10)
      We borrow a famous question asked in 1902 by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in a work of classic Marxist polemics to consider how to make the most out of the gains we won in our South China Sea (SCS) arbitral proceedings against ...

    • Suing China for peace, yet again 

      Loja, Melissa; Bagares, Romel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 5, 2021, on page A6)
      Recently, three Chinese coast guard vessels blocked two Philippine Navy (PN) ships en route to resupply soldiers stationed on BRP Sierra Madre, a state vessel beached on Ayungin Shoal. In the 2016 South China Sea arbitration, ...