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An international tribunal gave China until December 15 to present their counter-memorial in response to the Philippine complaints regarding the disputed territorial claims in the West Philippine Sea. Based on the Chinese counter-memorial, the tribunal will decided whether or not a hearing is needed.
(Reuters)– China defended the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday (June 3), the eve of the 25th anniversary, saying it had chosen the correct path for the sake of the people. For the ruling Communist Party, the 1989 demonstrations that clogged Tiananmen Square inBeijing and spread to other cities remain taboo after the government termed the protests “counter-revolutionary”. The anniversary of the date on which troops shot their way into central Beijing in 1989 has never been publicly marked […]
Malacañang said that the United States and Australia were not trying to shame China when officials of said countries spoke against Beijing’s aggressive claims in the West Philippine Sea.
(Reuters) – When Japan’s defence minister greeted the deputy chief of staff of China’s army at a regional security forum this weekend, he was undiplomatically snubbed. Lieutenant General Wang Guanzhong said he was incensed by comments from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe implicitly holding China responsible for territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and later by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s accusations that Beijing was destabilising the region. “When Mr Abe spoke just now, […]
A group of Filipinos is planning a protest march against the aggressive territorial claims made by China in the South China Sea.
(PUERTO PRINCESA CITY) — President Benigno S. Aquino III said he is against developments being done by other claimant countries in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) and that the Philippines might bring the issue to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Vietnam, Malaysia, China and other countries are building or improving facilities in islands or atolls they claim, which President Aquino said […]
Following terrorist attacks, China is leveling up its security drills nationwide
(Reuters) – Vietnam and China traded accusations on Tuesday over the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat not far from where China has placed an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea, as tensions fester between the two countries over the giant drilling platform. Hanoi said some 40 Chinese fishing boats had surrounded the Vietnamese craft before one of them rammed it and it sank. Vietnamese fishing boats operating nearby rescued the 10 fishermen on board, the government and […]
(Reuters)– Vietnam has made “unreasonable” accusations against China, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday (May 22), after the Vietnamese government said it was considering various “defense options” against China, including legal action. “Now they are distorting the facts, conflating right and wrong on the global stage, blackening China and making unreasonable accusations against China. Just who is the one who is repeatedly challenging other countries’ sovereignty? Who is the one who is causing tensions in the seas? Who on earth is destroying […]
More than twenty were killed in a suspected terrorist attack in China.
(Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on Asian countries to promote unity, cooperation and development of the continent. Xi made the call during his speech at a banquet he and his wife Peng Liyuan gave to the guests attending the fourth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Shanghai. There are several major emerging economies in today’s Asia, a continent with a variety of systems and cultures, Xi said, and the rise […]
(Reuters) – China summoned the U.S. ambassador after the United States accused five Chinese military officers of hacking into American companies to steal trade secrets, warning Washington it could take further action, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The U.S. Ambassador to China, Max Baucus, met with Zheng Zeguang, assistant foreign minister, on Monday shortly after the United States charged the five Chinese, accusing them of hacking into American nuclear, metal and solar companies to steal trade secrets. […]
