MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that his militarily inferior country cannot stop China’s actions in contested waters, responding to a reported plan by Beijing to construct an environmental monitoring station in a disputed shoal off the northwestern Philippines. Duterte, however, warned that he would invoke a July 12 arbitration ruling that invalidated China’s […]
PRC’s neighbors fret as it gears up to expand by water Once again, China is in an expansionist mood—after turning inward for 500 years. And its immediate goal is to colonize the South China Sea, which is also Southeast Asia’s maritime heartland. Already China is building airstrips and deploying oil rigs to get at our […]
PASAY CITY, May 23 — After a long postponement, the Philippines and China convened the sixth meeting of the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea (BCM) virtually on 21 May 2021. This year’s meeting was hosted by the Philippines. The BCM is a bilateral forum established by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and President […]
SUMMARY The Philippines reiterated its call for respect and adherence to international law regarding the West Philippine Sea at a virtual bilateral meeting with China on Friday, May 21. The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a press statement on Saturday, May 22, that the call was made at the 6th Bilateral Consultation […]
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SUMMARY The Philippines reiterated its call for respect and adherence to international law regarding the West Philippine Sea at a virtual bilateral meeting with China on Friday, May 21. The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a press statement on Saturday, May 22, that the call was made at the 6th Bilateral Consultation […]
Japanese leader Yoshihide Suga brings up his worries about China’s Coast Guard Law and expresses support for the Hague ruling won by the Philippines against China China’s controversial Coast Guard Law and the 2016 Hague ruling won by the Philippines against Beijing were discussed by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga […]
BEIJING — China said on Thursday a U.S. warship had illegally entered its territorial waters in the South China Sea, the latest salvo in the two nations’ dispute over Beijing’s territorial claims in the busy waterway. In a statement, the Chinese military’s Southern Theater Command said the USS Curtis Wilbur entered the waters near the […]
A United States warship sailed through the Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea on Thursday after passing through the Taiwan Strait, in defiance of a protest from Beijing. The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur had conducted freedom of navigation operations in the vicinity of the […]
President Duterte’s mantra is “China is in possession of the West Philippine Sea (WPS).” The President made this declaration on several occasions: the November 2018 Asean-India Summit in Singapore, his July 2019 and 2020 State of the Nation Addresses, and his late night TV addresses on April 19, 2021 and April 29, 2021. The reason […]