North Korea fired what appeared to be a “submarine-launched ballistic missile”, Seoul said on Wednesday, a day after Washington and Pyongyang announced they would resume stalled nuclear talks. Pyongyang frequently couples diplomatic overtures with military moves, as a way of maintaining pressure on negotiating partners, analysts say, and may believe this weapons system gives […]
CHINA has increased its military spending more than any other country and spent millions more on highly sophisticated missiles and aircraft as it looks to rival the US for global dominance. President Xi Jinping has unveiled a colossal weapons arsenal as Beijing celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of […]
In response to Chinese encroachment in South China Sea, Philippine foreign secretary tweets in all caps order to file a diplomatic protest. The Philippine foreign secretary used Twitter to order the immediate filing of a diplomatic protest against China on Wednesday after Chinese coast guard ships reportedly neared a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed […]
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. yesterday ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest against China over the presence of its ships near Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. “I’m in Moscow. Do I have to fly home to file the diplomatic protest myself?” Mr. Locsin said in a social media […]
In August, India said it had an “abiding interest in the peace and stability” of the region and called for adherence to international laws, including the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea. Satellite images show Vietnam has carried out significant land reclamation at two sites in the disputed South China Sea, but […]
The way China behaves in matters of external relations reflects far deeper roots than its current status as the world’s second largest economy, a foreign affairs expert said on Tuesday, noting that the Chinese underwent a long period of humiliation in the hands of imperialists. Former Philippine Ambassador to the ASEAN Wilfredo Villacorta pointed […]
MANILA, Philippines – Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr on Wednesday, October 2, ordered the filing of a diplomatic protest against China over the presence of its vessels near Ayungin Shoal (Second Thomas Shoal) in the West Philippine Sea. “DFA Philippines fire off another diplomatic protest. Now,” Locsin tweeted past midnight on Tuesday. Locsin made […]
CHINA President Xi Jinping has unveiled a colossal weapons arsenal as Beijing celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, but he also sent a chilling warning to the US as a trade war orchestrated by US President Donald Trump continues and disputes over the South China Sea rumble […]
China has a new offshore oil exploration platform called the Haiyang Shiyou 982 sitting in the South China Sea that is raising concerns about another confrontation with Vietnam. In 2012, China put the new rig’s smaller predecessor, the Haiyang Shiyou 981, into operation but moved it in 2014 when Vietnam claimed it violated its […]
When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing on August 29, expectations were high that progress would be made on the South China Sea territorial dispute. After all, under mounting domestic pressure, Duterte had promised—for the first time—that he would bring up the 2016 arbitral tribunal ruling during his […]