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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has called on China to “promptly withdraw” its fishing vessels and maritime assets from the vicinity of adjacent waters of relevant features in the Kalayaan Group of Islands in the West Philippine Sea. In a strongly-worded statement, the DFA also called on China to “direct its fishing vessels to desist from environmentally destructive activities.” The DFA issued the statement two days after it formally lodged a diplomatic […]
(Eagle News) — Patuloy namang i-momonitor ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ang anumang developments sa West Philippine Sea. Kasunod ito ng napaulat na paglapag ng China ng H-6K bomber aircraft sa man-made islands sa pinag-aagawang teritoryo. Pero ayon sa DFA, hindi isasa-publiko ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas ang bawat hakbang na gagawin kaugnay sa diplomatic row. “While appropriate language, whether expressions of condemnation or concern, over certain developments are clearly conveyed through diplomatic channels, it […]
(Eagle News) — Nakapaglagay umano ang China ng cruise missiles at surface-to-air missile systems sa tatlong outposts nito sa pinag-aagawang teritoryo sa South China Sea o West Philippine Sea. Batay sa US Intelligence Report, nakapag-deploy na ang China ng YJ-12B cruise missiles na kayang tumarget ng mga barko na ang layo ay hanggang 295 nautical miles, gayundin ang HQ-9B long-range surface-to-air missiles na kaya namang tumarget ng hanggang 160 miles. Nakasaad din sa report na […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Matapos magpahayag ng pagkabahala ang Pilipinas sa paglalagay ng mga weapon system ng China sa mga artipisyal na isla sa pinag-aagawang teritoryo sa West Philippine Sea, nagpulong sina Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin at Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa Malacanañg. Hindi na idinetalye pa ng mga opisyal ng Palasyo ang napag-usapan sa nasabing pagpupulong. Pero ayon kay Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella, mismong ang Chinese official ang nag-request ng pakikipagkita sa Pangulo. […]
INCOMING President Rodrigo Duterte maintained that the Philippines would assert its claims over disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea and Sabah. China has been maintaining that the disputed areas fall within the “nine-dotted line” which it asserts as its territory. But the Philippines has challenged this claim in the international tribunal for the law of the sea, and said that China violated the United Nation’s Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, […]
China is bent in pursuing its aggressive designs in South China sea with plans to build lighthouses in islands also claimed by Vietnam.
