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BEIJING — China on Tuesday defended its naming of 80 islands and other geographical features in the South China Sea in a move likely to anger neighbors as the country asserts its territorial claims. A joint announcement…
MANILA, Philippines — In an apparent move to further tighten its grip in the South China Sea, Beijing recently announced it was establishing two districts in Paracels and Spratly Islands. The two administrative units are under the…
BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinping stood pat on his country’s rejection of the international arbitral award favoring the Philippines, but assured President Duterte that China will avoid “provocative acts” in the South China Sea, presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo…
MANILA, Philippines — A Chinese fishing vessel abandoned a sinking Philippine fishing boat after hitting it at Recto Bank in the South China Sea earlier this week, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana reported on Wednesday. Lorenzana condemned…
MANILA, Philippines—A possible armed confrontation over the disputed maritime areas in the South China Sea is on the top list of security threats concerning the United States in the coming year, according to an annual survey of…
For the first time, the United States called on China to remove missiles it deployed on three fortified outposts it built in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. “The United States called on China to…
The Philippines is concerned about China’s possible deployment of nuclear weapons in its outposts in the heavily disputed South China Sea. “We are concerned about the entry of any and all nuclear weapons into the Philippine territory…
Manila — The Philippines and the US are verifying if Chinese coast guard ships left a disputed shoal after President Rodrigo Duterte reached out to Beijing, allowing Filipino fishermen back to the rich fishing area that China…
Now I know how the Cubans must have felt when Fidel Castro, who overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and gained their adulation for it, declared himself a Marxist-Leninist two years later. Of course,…
BEIJING — China and the Philippines have agreed to resume a dialogue on their dispute over the South China Sea, a senior Chinese diplomat said Thursday following talks between the countries’ leaders. The move appeared to be…
The fast thawing of ice-cold relations between China and the Philippines in the wake of our victory over this emerging superpower in the Arbitral Tribunal over the former’s illegal occupation of our sovereign territory in the West…
His only problem is his mouth. This pretty much summed up the opinions of local officials in Cebu who continue to hold the foul-mouthed President Rodrigo Duterte in high regard after 100 days in office despite the…
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