Tag: China’s territorial claims

China warns U.S. “not to make trouble out of nothing” on South China Sea issue

Chinese Foreign Minister Want Yi warned the United States “not to make trouble out of nothing” in response to U.S Navy’s plan to send a destroyer to the South China Sea. A U.S defense official said the U.S. Navy plans to send a destroyer within 12 miles of China’s island in the South China Sea within the next 24 hours, according to the Cable News Network. Wang, who is attending a China-Japan-South Korea seminar in […]

Philippines won’t raise China dispute in APEC

QUEZON City, Philippines, September 9 (Eagle News) — In a media forum aired on state-run People’s Television, President Benigno S. Aquino III on Tuesday said that the country will not raise the West Philippine Sea dispute during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting this November. Aquino also added that the country has already filed an arbitration case before the United Nations Tribunal questioning China’s nine-dash line territorial reclamation. The president said that the Philippines will […]