Hundreds of defense officials are meeting in Singapore this weekend to talk about managing the widely contested, resource-rich South China Sea. That’s what the agenda says at least. The forum might actually turn into a verbal water fight over what everyone should do about China after a United Nations court rules sometime this month whether […]
SINGAPORE—A senior NATO general criticized China’s decision to ignore an upcoming Hague tribunal ruling on Chinese maritime claims, saying that Beijing risks fueling regional instability by unilaterally flouting international norms in dispute resolution. http://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-general-says-china-should-respect-tribunal-on-maritime-claim-1464962826
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter delivers a speech titled “Meeting Asia’s Complex Security Challenges” at the 15th International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS, Asia Security Summit on Saturday, June 4, 2016, in Singapore. AP PHOTO U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter delivers a speech titled “Meeting Asia’s Complex Security Challenges” at the 15th […]
DAVAO CITY — Incoming Solicitor General Jose Calida on Saturday said he is “very hopeful” that the Philippines will win its arbitration case against China on the disputed West Philippine Sea. “We are very hopeful that we will win this case,” Calida told reporters at Royal Mandaya Hotel. The former Justice undersecretary said he recently […]
SINGAPORE – Malaysian defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein on Saturday (June 4) urged Asean claimants to the South China Sea to resolve their differences first before blaming China or the United States for contributing to tensions over maritime disputes in the region. “Even within Asean, there are duplicating claims [to the South China Sea]… we cannot […]
MANILA – Presidential Communication Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma on Saturday told a Radyo ng Bayan interview that it’s best to just wait for the United Nations Arbitral Tribunal to issue a ruling on the case that the Philippines brought before it regarding the territorial dispute with China. Coloma’s remarks were made in reaction to […]
US Defense Secretary Ashten Carter on Saturday warned China against provocative behavior in the South China Sea, saying “any action by China to reclaim land in the Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the disputed sea, would have consequences” “I hope that this development doesn’t occur, because it will result in actions being taken by the […]
SINGAPORE—Western officials ramped up calls for China to respect an impending ruling from a Hague tribunal on Beijing’s broad maritime claim to the South China Sea, even though Chinese authorities have boycotted the proceedings and called them illegal. http://www.wsj.com/articles/calls-for-china-to-respect-maritime-claim-ruling-grow-louder-1465012976
WHEN China sureptitiously took Panatag shoal (Scarborough shoal) from an unsuspecting and naïve Aquino administration in 2012, few suspected that the stealthy Chinese maneuver would set off a series of events and developments that would turn the shoal into a flashpoint for a major-power confrontation in the Asia-Pacific. Tension has been building up these past […]
China will not compromise on its notorious nine-dash line claiming nearly all of the South China Sea even after an upcoming verdict on a key international case against Beijing filed by the Philippines, a top Chinese scholar told a key regional forum in Malaysia Wednesday. Ahead of the verdict on the Philippines’ South China Sea […]