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    • ‘Artificial islands to help China project offensive military power’ 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, March 12, 2018, on page 5)
      China will be able to project “substantial offensive military power” from artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea’s disputed Spratly Islands within months, the director of US national intelligence said. In ...
    • China has taken P9.7 trillion in reefs, fish - and counting 

      Bondoc, Jarius (The Philippine Star, February 17, 2021, on page 9)
      The CCP is stepping up sea aggression. Seven Philippine reefs have been landfilled into Chinese island-garrisons. From there gunboat-backed Chinese poachers overfish Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and mineral-rich Recto (Reed) ...
    • Phl relies on China's good faith amid expansion in SCS 

      Romero, Alexis (The Philippine Star, December 26, 2017, on page 3)
      The Philippines will still rely on China’s good faith even as the Asian power has expanded and fortified the islands it is occupying in the South China Sea and West Philippine Sea. Asked to comment on a report from Beijing ...
    • Rody: Phl-China bond 'improving' daily 

      Romero, Alexis (The Philippine Star, January 11, 2018, on page 1-2)
      The bond between the Philippines and China is “improving every day,” President Duterte said in the face of concerns over the militarization of artificial islands built and occupied by the Chinese in the South China Sea. ...