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DFA chief: Nix deals with China companies tied to WPS buildup
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Friday said he would recommend the termination of government contracts with Chinese companies involved in China’s artificial island building on maritime features in the West Philippine ...
- August 29, 2020
China’s aggression amid global crisis
The world continues to struggle with how to contain the transmission and mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 416,000 people worldwide are reported to have died from COVID-19, and more than 7.3 million ...
- June 12, 2020
Sea conduct, pandemic to agenda of meet
The ongoing negotiations for a new South China Sea Code of Conduct and the continuing battle to contain the new coronavirus disease were among the items discussed in the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...
- July 12, 2020
Carpio: West Philippine Sea must be a poll issue
The country’s territorial dispute with China should be a central campaign issue in the 2022 presidential elections, retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said on Monday. “We must vote for a government ...
- June 9, 2020
China: US sowing discord in South China Sea
China on Tuesday described a U.S. rejection of its maritime claims in the South China Sea as completely unjustified and accused the U.S. of attempting to sow discord between China and the Southeast Asian countries with ...
- July 15, 2020
Enforcing the Arbitral Award
How should we enforce the July 12, 2016 Arbitral Award (AA) vis-à-vis China’s intractable claim of ownership and sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea (SCS) including our exclusive economic zone (EEZ)? My short ...
- June 13, 2021
Carpio: Marcos stand a 'welcome sea change'
Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio lauded the recent pronouncement by President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that he would assert the 2016 decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration favoring Manila against ...
- May 29, 2022
Lorenzana: Illegal to have Sino air defense zone in South China Sea
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Thursday said China’s plan to set up an air defense identification zone (Adiz) over the South China Sea would be considered illegal and a violation of international laws by many countries ...
- June 26, 2020
Urgently needed: SCS Code of Conduct
The South China Sea has not been spared the nail-biting tension of 2020. As claimant states are preoccupied with efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous worrying incidents have occurred within the maritime territory, ...
- August 1, 2020
Creating sustainable future for West PH Sea
Last month, four medium-range missiles, launched by China’s military from that country’s mainland, were fired into the waters between the disputed Paracel Islands and the southern island-province of Hainan, according to ...
- September 22, 2020