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(Eagle News) – China’s real intention or “grand design” in establishing air and naval bases in the South China Sea is to continue to enforce the nine-dash line, although this was already invalidated by a recent ruling of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This was according to Supreme Court Acting Chief Justice Antonio T. Carpio who detailed how China increasingly creeped into territorial waters of other countries, including […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque clarified that the ruling of the United Nations Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on the West Philippine Sea dispute has only resolved issues involving the seas, not land. In a press briefing in Palawan on Wednesday, March 7, the Palace spokesperson said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s position is that the tribunal has particularly established that “China cannot claim any of the waters of the West Philippine […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that the existing Vietnamese-Chinese setup in joint exploration and development could be a model for a possible Philippine-China joint exploration on the disputed South China Sea. He said on Monday, March 5, that the Philippines could follow the setup of the two countries in jointly exploring the body of water. Vietnam has claims in the area, which China claims almost entirely. According to Roque, the exploration is […]
(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)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday night reiterated the country had sovereign rights over its claims in the South China Sea. The President made the assertion before the Chinese ambassador Zhao Jianhua and Filipino-Chinese businessmen, among others. “It has been the claim of the Republic of the Philippines na atin ‘yan… which we call before the China Sea, now the West Philippine Sea,” Duterte said. He also noted that the Philippine Rise was ours. “So […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — United States Navy Lt. Commander Tim Hawkins said that China’s artificial islands will not stop the US Navy from patrolling international waters. “International law allows us to operate here, allows us to fly here, allows us to train here, allows us to sail here, and that’s what we’re doing and we’re going to continue to do that,” Hawkins said. Hawkins also said that the US Navy has been patrolling […]
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 […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — It “did not happen overnight,” says Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque pertaining to alleged reclamation and the building of military installation by China in the West Philippine Sea. “Those islands were reclaimed during even the time of the former administration. They were complete in fact during the time of the previous administration, and I think whether or not we like it, they intended to use them as military bases,” he added. […]
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (Eagle News) – Nagtipon ang mga opisyal ng Integrated Bar of the Philippines mula sa iba’t ibang panig ng bansa sa ginanap na 23rd House of Delegates Convention sa Puerto Princesa City. Nakasentro ang naturang aktibidad sa pagbuo ng mga plano at paraan upang patuloy na mapangalagaan ang West Philippine Sea, kung saan pinanghahawakan ng bansa ang ginawang desisyon ng International tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) na pumapabor […]
Beijing said it has dispatched a warship to drive away a US missile destroyer which had “violated” its sovereignty by sailing close to a shoal in the disputed South China Sea. The USS Hopper sailed within 12 nautical miles of Huangyan Island on the night of January 17 without alerting Beijing, the foreign ministry said, referring to the shoal by its Chinese name. Also known as Scarborough Shoal, the ring of reefs lies about 230 […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Fiery Cross, also known as Kagitingan Reef, is now a Chinese military base. Part of the disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea, China Central Television reported the base has a runway for warplanes able to accommodate strategic bombers. The base is also equipped with communication facilities. Also according to the report, more than 200 soldiers are also stationed on Fiery Cross.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte brought up the issue of militarization in the West Philippine Sea during bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Vietnam, with both countries later agreeing war was not an option. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who spoke in a press conference on the first day of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit on Monday. “There was a frank and very candid discussion on […]
