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Island defense buildup targets no one-China
China said Wednesday that the defense facilities it has built on the disputed Kagitingan Reef in the West Philippine Sea are not directed at any country. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lu Kang made this ...
- January 11, 2018
China warns vs cradle of war
China warned its rivals Wednesday against turning the South China Sea into a "cradle of war" and threatened to establish an air defense zone there, after its claims to the strategically vital waters were declared invalid. ...
- July 14, 2016
Rody backs China buildup in WP Sea
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday suggested in jest that China make the Philippines a province as he defended China’s construction of military structures on the contested Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef in the South China ...
- February 20, 2018
Surveying the seashore
Philippine Coast Guard personnel survey the seashores near Thitu Island with Chinese-claimed Subi reef during a visit by Defense Secretary Lorenzana and other top defense and military officials in the disputed Spratlys ...
- April 23, 2017
China to throw CG 'bad apples' into sea - envoy
China's Ambassador Zhao Jianhua admitted Tuesday there were “bad apples” in the Chinese Coast Guard and said he would throw them into the South China Sea to feed the fish, but a foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing said ...
- June 13, 2018
China accosts US plane flying over disputed sea
A US surveillance plane was warned eight times by the Chinese Navy against flying over the contested West Philippine Sea on Wednesday, CNN Philippines said in an exclusive report. A CNN team led by senior correspondent Jim ...
- May 22, 2015
Vietnam begins dredging work on disputed reef
Vietnam has started dredging work on a reef in the South China Sea, fresh satellite images appear to show, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waterway. An image of Ladd Reef in the Spratly ...
- December 10, 2016
Aquino blamed for China militarization in SCS
Malacañang on Monday continued to blame the “militarization” of the South China Sea on former President Benigno Aquino III as it defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to be friendly with China to resolve the dispute ...
- June 26, 2018
'PH must overturn China's renaming of PH Rise feautres'
Senator Bam Aquino on Monday said that the Philippine government must explore all channels to overturn China’s move to name the five undersea features in the Philippine Rise or the Benham Rise violated the country’s sovereign ...
- February 27, 2018
Asean ministers decry Chinese reclamation
China’s continued reclamation in the South China Sea has eroded trust among claimants and could raise regional tensions, Southeast Asian foreign ministers said Tuesday. The ministers from the 10-nation Association of ...
- February 7, 2018