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South China Sea is ours
It’s comforting to note that our government officials have become aggressive over our sovereign rights over the South China Sea. For so long, we seemed to have kowtowed to China’s aggressive claim of owning the territory. ...
- July 16, 2020
China’s reef destruction P231.7 B so far: Pay up
China owes the Philippines P231.7 billion for continuing reef destruction and poaching since 2013. With the UN court holding Beijing liable for ecological damage, the Philippines can exact indemnity. China state assets in ...
- June 17, 2020
A sustainable future for the West Philippine Sea
It takes a foreigner to sound the alarm on the devastation occurring in the West Philippine Sea. For years, the Chinese Communist Party and the Philippine government have downplayed the wreckage happening to the fragile ...
- September 9, 2020
45 Pinoy fishermen repatriated from Indonesia
The government of Indonesia has repatriated at least 45 Filipino fishermen who have been detained in Bitung City in Manado, North Sulawesi. The Filipinos, who were earlier arrested for encroaching into Indonesian territorial ...
- July 20, 2020
Kalayaan: Sovereignty and joint business opportunity
The recent visit of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to Pagasa Island in the West Philippine Sea brings back a time when I was foreign affairs secretary in the 1990s. It was during that period when we were blindsided by ...
- June 19, 2020
'US to use all tools to protect valid SCS claims'
Saying US policy on the South China Sea is now “crystal clear,” Washington announced it will use all tools and legal responses it can provide to protect valid claims of countries across the world which recognize that China ...
- July 17, 2020
Beijing claims 'consensus' reached on joint exploration
The Chinese government said it had reached a consensus with the Philippines on the conduct of joint exploration of resources in the South China Sea. Reacting to the decision of President Duterte to lift the moratorium on ...
- October 18, 2020
Losing hearts and minds
As countries scramble to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, some governments are still finding time for other pursuits. Last week, the Philippine government ...
- April 30, 2020
Doublespeak blurs our position on SCS
Was President Duterte informing the United Nations merely for the record, or to lay the basis for an action plan, on the 2016 arbitral award in favor of the Philippines vs China affirming his country’s sovereign rights in ...
- September 29, 2020
Phl leaves joint naval patrols; Palau, Ecuador repel Chinese poachers
Filipino soldiers have been withdrawn from joint naval exercises in the West Philippine Sea. President Rody Duterte has limited drills only to territorial seas 12 nautical miles from coast. “[He] has a standing order to ...
- August 12, 2020