As Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte rejected his foreign secretary’s strong recommendation to end business deals with Chinese firms that built artificial islands in the South China Sea, an analyst said banning these companies would make them accountable for their “crime against humanity”. Chinese envoy to Manila Huang Xilian praised Duterte’s pursuit of an independent foreign […]
The locus of world opinion is the United Nations General Assembly or UNGA, where all members of the United Nations are represented. A resolution approved by the UNGA, even when not legally binding, is the expression of world opinion. A state that is rebuffed in the Security Council because of the veto of one of […]
LOCSIN HOWEVER JUNKS ANOTHER BID TO BRING PCA RULING TO UN GA Lawmakers on Sunday backed the proposal of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. to terminate projects of Chinese firms involved in West Philippine Sea reclamation projects, following the lead of the United States. In separate statements, Samar 1st District Rep. Edgar Sarmiento and […]
I REFER to the article “Keep our backyard safe” by Wong Chun Wai (Sunday Star, Aug 16) regarding the South China Sea. Although primarily an attack on the United States for its assertion of navigation rights in the waters to our north, Wong was also critical of my country. He wrote: “Australia, which has no […]
NEW DELHI: In sanctioning the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), the US has launched a precision strike against the Beijing-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), adding another layer to the growing animosity between the worlds largest and second largest economy. The CCCC is the spearhead of BRI — a trans-continental connectivity undertaking, meant to anchor […]
New Delhi: The Indian Navy has reportedly deployed one of its frontline warships in the South China Sea, much to the displeasure of the Chinese, who raised objections during diplomatic talks between the two nations. The warship was reportedly deployed in the South China Sea after the June 15 clash with Chinese PLA troops in […]
With more tit-for-tat rhetoric and military posturing, China and the United States seem to be heading towards a showdown in the South China Sea. flew over Chinese naval exercises in the Bohai Sea in violation of a no-fly zone. The US followed up China’s missile test by deploying a ballistic missile-detection aircraft to spy on […]
It’s like a fuzzy red line that China imposes on its weaker neighbours involved in the South China Sea dispute: protest all you like about the militarisation and artificial island-building, just don’t mention the international court ruling that rejected Beijing’s far-reaching territorial claims. It’s like a fuzzy red line that China imposes on its weaker […]
MANILA, Philippines — The United States has urged governments, parties and institutions around the world to assess the risk and reconsider business deals with “predatory” Chinese state-owned enterprises. In a special press briefing through teleconference on Thursday, but whose trancription was released only yesterday, a senior official of the US State Department said the blacklisting […]
More and more coastal states are using the 2016 international court verdict to promote their maritime interest. Manila won arbitration against Beijing sea aggression. But The Hague jurisprudence benefits every littoral country. The tribunal outlawed China’s baseless “nine-dash line” sea boundary. Clarified was that China-held isles in the Spratlys do not generate a 200-mile exclusive […]