Sam Galope
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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 China Sea and the End…
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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 to all or part of…
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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
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ARCHEOLOGY AND PATRIOTISM: LONG TERM CHINESE STRATEGIES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
Abstract : Several authors writing about the Chinese claim to the Paracel Islands have dated the first official Chinese expedition to these islands to 1902. However, none of these writers have been able to show any records of this expedition taking place. In fact, Chinese records show that the expedition never happened. Instead, a secret expedition took place decades later…