MANILA – Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio on Thursday said the Philippines can enforce its arbitration victory against China without the latter’s participation by entering into sea boundary agreements with other Southeast Asian nations. “The Philippines and Vietnam can enter into a sea boundary agreement of their overlapping extended continental shelves beyond the Spratlys,” Carpio […]
Some 73 percent of Filipinos believe the Duterte administration should exercise sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea, the latest Pulse Asia survey shows. This was down from 84 percent in December 2016, two years after a United Nations tribunal ruled in the Philippines’ favor by finding China’s claims over the West Philippine Sea to be […]
Amid growing concerns over the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, it’s a fine time for the top brass of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to go back to the drawing board and rethink their mindset in dealing with the country’s security problems. “It’s about time to reset the thinking of the leadership […]
The release of a new defense strategy paper by New Zealand, marking a shift towards greater coordination with the US and Australia on security issues, prompted a stern response from Beijing on Monday. While Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have made efforts to steer clear of criticizing China by name when […]
China has hit back at New Zealand over an official defence strategy paper, which named it as a threat. Defence Minister Ron Mark’s rebooted Strategic Defence Policy Statement, released on Friday, explicitly states the threat it believes China poses to the international community. Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have often been […]
MANILA – If care is taken to preserve it, there is still hope that an international court’s 2016 ruling in a case filed by the Philippines against China over their maritime disputes in the South China Sea can yield fruit, advocates of Manila’s sovereign rights in sea said Thursday. READ: Arbitral court’s ruling on Philippines […]
Let’s attempt to clear up the smoke on the China-Philippine conflict over territorial waters and atolls in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) by adding more conflicting arguments because it is, ironically, only when we juxtapose opposing sides of an issue that we see the truth. No other side but our side. The conflict […]
Two years after arbitration win, Philippine policy slammed as soft on Beijing MANILA — Two years after the Philippines won a major legal victory against China at The Hague, President Rodrigo Duterte is coming under pressure to wield the ruling in its South China Sea disputes and to discard what many see as a weak-kneed […]
MANILA – Former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile on Friday refused to grade the performance of President Rodrigo Duterte but agreed with most of his policies, specifically on crime, on China, and the economy. Speaking to reporters after his pre-trial at the Sandiganbayan, Enrile said he agrees with the policy of President Duterte on being friendly […]
Russia and China are rigorously improving strategic ties to be better prepared for the challenges of today’s world, as the US resorts to deception, hybrid wars, and controlled chaos, the Russian defense minister said. In a frank interview with Italian magazine Il Giornale, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu explained Russia’s strategy of keeping friends and deterring […]