Sam Galope
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Malaysia slams China’s ‘provocation’ in South China Sea
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Malaysia, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, USAChina’s relations with several Southeast Asian countries, especially the Philippines and Vietnam who have competing claims in the South China Sea, have been strained by Beijing’s increasingly assertive tone in an area through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes annually. Beijing’s move last year to step up the creation of artificial islands, which it […]
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US-China confrontation looms in troubled waters of South China Sea
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, USASubject to competing claims by China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and Vietnam, more than half the world’s merchant tonnage plies back and forth through this navigable chokehold between the Western Pacific and Indian oceans, as Robert Kaplan, a former member of the Pentagon’s Defence Policy Board, writes in his book, Asia’s Cauldron, The South […]
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Early Voyaging in the South China Sea: Implications on Territorial Claims
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, Artificial Islands, China, History, Maps, Militarization, Military Conflict, Philippines, Reclamation, Regular Patrols, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, USAThe South China Sea has been a shipping thoroughfare for at least the past two millennia. Apart from piracy and occasional acts of war, ships of all types and origins have been free to sail wherever they wished. Freedom of navigation through the South China Sea could now be at risk. Six countries lay claim […]
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International Opinion on the South China Sea Issue
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Capsule Cartographic Exhibit Philippine Embassy Tour
Philippine Embassy Italy http://romepe.dfa.gov.ph/index.php/embassy-news/397-phl-senior-associate-justice-delivers-lecture-on-west-philippine-sea-in-rome Philippine Embassy Scandinavia http://www.philembassy.no/news-item/online-cartographic-exhibit-on-the-scarborough-shoal-in-ancient-maps Philippine Embassy Germany http://www.philippine-embassy.de/bln/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1353&Itemid=74 Philippine Embassy Argentina http://www.buenosairespe.dfa.gov.ph/index.php/embassy-news/166-ph-ambassador-presents-philippines-position-on-the-west-philippine-sea