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Filipino fishers lose 70pct of income due to Chinese incursions: group
MANILA – Filipino fishermen in Zambales lose some 70 percent of their income due to the increasing presence of Chinese vessels in Panatag Shoal (Scarborough Shoal), a militant fishers group said Thursday. The average income of a fisherman dropped from an average of P1,000 to a measly P300 per fishing trip since last year, said […]
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Biden’s Asia czar says era of engagement with Xi’s China is over
The U.S. is entering a period of intense competition with China as the government running the world’s second-biggest economy becomes ever more tightly controlled by President Xi Jinping, the White House’s top official for Asia said Wednesday. “The period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end,” Kurt Campbell, the U.S. coordinator […]
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PH didn’t ‘handpick’ entire panel in South China Sea arbitration case
People’s Television (PTV) News, a state-run media network, posted a misdated quote card of former ambassador Rosario Manalo, in which the latter inaccurately claimed that the Philippines “handpicked” the arbitration panel in the South China Sea maritime dispute with China. The quote card was then amplified by a Facebook page managed by two pro-Duterte lawyers, […]
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Filipino fishermen face double burden of COVID and Chinese expansion
China’s expansion into contested waters in the South China Sea has been a longtime problem for fishing communities in the Philippines. Now, a pandemic-fueled economic downturn has made things even worse. Flaring tensions in disputed areas of the South China Sea, and coronavirus-related lockdown measures complicating distribution of fish catches, are threatening the survival […]
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Video falsely purports to share Duterte’s latest ‘comments’ on ‘new’ South China Sea dispute
A video has been viewed more than two million times on Facebook and YouTube that claims it shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte commenting on a new dispute in the South China Sea. The posts claim the “breaking news” video shows Duterte commending a Filipino ship captain for standing up to the “Chinese Coast Guard”. The […]
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Panelo confuses West Philippine Sea with whole South China Sea
MANILA – Malacañang’s top legal counsel is apparently confused with the difference between the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea. In an interview with ANC’s After the Fact on Tuesday, chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo said that the West Philippine Sea, which is the country’s exclusive economic zone in the disputed South […]
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Regime of Islands
By: Antonio T. Carpio – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM May 27, 2021 The Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) was formally incorporated into Philippine territory under Presidential Decree No. 1596 dated June 11, 1978. PD 1596 states, “The area within (a description of the coordinates of the KIG polygonal lines) xxx shall belong and be […]
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Palace: No urgency to discuss Chinese incursions in WPS with ex-Presidents
President Rodrigo Duterte will not discuss the government’s policy on the West Philippine Sea with former presidents because it is not an urgent matter, Malacañang said Monday. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque made the response when asked for updates on the President’s supposed plan to talk with former Presidents on West Philippine Sea amid a bevy […]
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UK’s largest warship to sail through Philippine Sea, South China Sea
MANILA, Philippines — The United Kingdom’s RoyalNavy will deploy one of its largest aircraft carrier for a 28-week world tour, including the Philippine and the South China Sea, part of which is the West Philippine Sea. The Queen herself went onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth to bid farewell to 1,700 UK navy, air force and marines […]
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Duterte: Philippines cannot stop China moves in disputed sea
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that his militarily inferior country cannot stop China’s actions in contested waters, responding to a reported plan by Beijing to construct an environmental monitoring station in a disputed shoal off the northwestern Philippines. Duterte, however, warned that he would invoke a July 12 arbitration ruling that invalidated China’s […]
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‘All China wants is 80% of the South China Sea’
PRC’s neighbors fret as it gears up to expand by water Once again, China is in an expansionist mood—after turning inward for 500 years. And its immediate goal is to colonize the South China Sea, which is also Southeast Asia’s maritime heartland. Already China is building airstrips and deploying oil rigs to get at our […]
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Philippines, China convene mechanism to ease tensions, explore cooperation in South China Sea
PASAY CITY, May 23 — After a long postponement, the Philippines and China convened the sixth meeting of the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea (BCM) virtually on 21 May 2021. This year’s meeting was hosted by the Philippines. The BCM is a bilateral forum established by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and President […]