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Chinese ships moored at Julian Felipe Reef since November 2020
The presence of Chinese vessels at a reef within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which had aroused the concern of President Rodrigo Duterte, was detected by a US-based research company as early as November ...
- March 27, 2021
China destroyer nearly rams US warship
A Chinese warship sailed within yards of an American destroyer — forcing it to change course — in an “unsafe and unprofessional” encounter as the US vessel was in contested waters in the South China Sea, an official said ...
- October 3, 2018
Uniting goals and methods in WPS
Our maritime problems arose when China claimed ownership of and sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea (SCS), and seized several isles and rocks therein, like the Paracels in 1974, Fiery Cross Reef in 1987, ...
- August 11, 2019
PH, US, Japan hold war games
The Philippines on Monday opened separate but simultaneous naval exercises with US and Japanese forces off Palawan, an island that is not from the disputed Spratly archipelago, where China's rapid creation of seven artificial ...
- June 23, 2015
DU30: back to Panatag
President Duterte on Sunday raised the possibility of Filipino fishermen returning to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea after his three-day state visit to China. Speaking before residents of typhoon-hit ...
- October 24, 2016
Vietnam offers Spratlys soverignty cruise
Vietnam is offering scores of patriotic citizens the holiday of a lifetime with a cruise to some of Asia’s most hotly contested islands, in a move likely to stoke its simmering dispute with Beijing over South China Sea ...
- June 6, 2015
Duterte to China: Resolve sea row based on int'l law
President Rodrigo Duterte told a senior Chinese official that disputes in the South China Sea must be resolved in accordance with international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), Malacañang ...
- September 13, 2020
China military again lands plane on PH reef
Malacañang need no more wait to acquire technology to verify and protest China’s violation of the Philippines’ sovereignty in the Spratly archipelago. Satellite imagery has shown the first confirmed landing by China of a ...
- May 11, 2018
Rody to Sino envoy: We're concerned about your ships
President Rodrigo Duterte has told the Chinese ambassador that the Philippines was concerned about the large number of Chinese vessels at Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef and reasserted the international arbitral tribunal’s ...
- March 26, 2021
China's land reclamation alarms US senators
Leading US senators expressed alarm on Thursday at the scale and speed of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea and said a formal US strategy was needed to slow or stop the work. In a letter to US Secretary State ...
- March 21, 2015