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(Agence France Presse) — President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday China’s leaders told him they were prepared to go to war over competing claims in the South China Sea. Duterte, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing this week, said he was making the threat public in response to domestic criticism he was being too weak with China over the dispute. “I really said it to their face. That is […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines may invest in its first-ever submarine fleet to help protect its territory in the disputed South China Sea, President Benigno Aquino said Wednesday. The impoverished nation, which has never before operated submarines and until now relied largely on US surplus ships, has been ramping up defence spending in response to China’s military expansion in the region. China claims almost all of the South China Sea despite conflicting claims from […]
REUTERS — China condemned the U.S. action after its warship sailed near an island claimed by China in disputed South China Sea, state media reported on Sunday (January 31). A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of an island claimed by China and two other states in the South China Sea on Saturday (January 30) to counter efforts to limit freedom of navigation, the Pentagon said, prompting an angry reaction from Beijing. China […]
