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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated the country will deal with China only through diplomacy. He said before Chinese-Filipino businessmen on Monday, February 19, during an anniversary celebration of the Chinese Filipino Business Club, Inc. (CFBCI) at the Manila Hotel that the country will insist on its sovereign rights over its claims in the West Philippine Sea but in “friendly and civilized terms.” “We cannot go there ride in our, whatever, navy, grey ships, […]
(Eagle News)– The Palace on Monday belied a maritime expert’s claim the Philippines was giving “too much, too early, too soon” to China. “On the contrary, we have upheld our national interest and produced tangible benefits for our people in pursuing friendly and mutually-beneficial ties with China,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. According to Roque, for instance, “our people have been able to resume their right to fish in Scarborough and there is peace in […]
The Philippines and China are discussing joint mineral exploration in the South China Sea despite an ongoing territorial conflict over the strategic waterway, the foreign secretary said on Friday. The two countries, long embroiled in a dispute over their competing claims to the area, are hoping talks will open the door for them to jointly tap its resources, Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said. “We are pushing it aggressively because we need it,” Cayetano told […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday said it believes China’s naming of undersea features at Philippine Rise was not done “in bad faith.” “We’re not attributing any bad faith to China, but we’re just saying respect us too that we will give Philippine names to them,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing. According to Roque, because of the incident, the Philippines would now nominate its own expert in the International Hydrographic Organization’s […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday said he would also assign Philippine names to the features at the Philippine Rise that were named by China. “We will still discuss this with the National Security Adviser and other Cabinet members,” he said. Lorenzana issued the brief statement after the Palace condemned China’s move to name the five undersea features. In a Facebook post, Jay Batongbacal, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines […]
“Iba naman yung exercising sovereign rights,” he says (Eagle News) — Unlike some of his colleagues, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III sees nothing wrong with China’s naming of five undersea features at Philippine Rise. “Without reading the convention or the treaty, or the rules governing the name, common sense tells me that no one has a monopoly of the power or the right to name features on earth. Wala naman pong ganun,” he said on […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has protested China’s naming of five undersea features at the Philippine Rise. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who issued a statement on the matter on Wednesday. “We object and do not recognize the Chinese names given to some undersea features in the Philippine Rise. Per our Philippine embassy in Beijing, they have already raised our concern to China,” Roque said. According to Roque, the embassy was […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump threatened retaliatory action against two major Asian trading partners Tuesday, warning of sanctions against China while vowing to revise or scrap a free trade deal with South Korea. Accusing Beijing of decimating American steel and aluminum industries, Trump said he was “considering all options,” including tariffs and quotas. Trump recently received two Commerce Department reports concerning alleged Chinese subsidies for steel and aluminum exports — materials […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has started building the world’s largest test site for unmanned ships — a technology with both civilian and military applications — off a port in the disputed South China Sea, state media said Tuesday. The test area is being constructed off the southern port city of Zhuhai bordering Macau, the state Xinhua news agency said. China asserts sovereignty over almost all the South China Sea despite competing partial claims from […]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AFP) — Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma foresees an Olympics that is better for fans and athletes and is more economical — and hopes Beijing 2022 will be the pinnacle of that vision. Ma’s e-commerce giant in January launched a multimillion-dollar partnership until 2028 with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) designed to propel the Olympics headlong into the digital era. The deal was particularly significant with the 2022 Winter Olympics taking place on Alibaba’s […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) – Detained book publisher Gui Minhai has surfaced nearly three weeks after disappearing into police custody in China, confessing wrongdoing and accusing his adopted country Sweden of manipulating him like a “chess piece”. It was unclear whether the Chinese-born Gui’s statement was genuine or made under duress, but a video of his confession shows him flanked by two police officers in a scene likely to prompt accusations of official coercion. The Chinese-born Gui, 53, was […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor and its Chinese joint venture partner announced on Monday a $9.5 billion investment plan in China to increase annual sales by one million vehicles and boost electric car production. Dongfeng Motor Company is the latest Sino-foreign car company to splash out as China rolls out new regulations to limit gas vehicles and boost production of electric cars in coming years. Nissan’s high-end brand, Infiniti, will go all electric in […]
