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Why Justice Carpio wants China to read his e-book
SUMMARY MANILA, Philippines – For more than 5 years, Supreme Court (SC) Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has lectured before mostly Filipino students and academics to debunk China’s claim over the disputed South China Sea. More than 140 lectures and speeches later, Carpio published an e-book hoping his words can influence a most critical audience: […]
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Carpio launches e-book on South China Sea territorial dispute
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Thursday launched an electronic book aimed at educating the Filipino people and the rest of the world about the South China Sea dispute. Titled “Philippine Sovereign Rights and Jurisdiction in the West Philippine Sea: The South China Sea Dispute,” the 264-page e-book is a compilation of Carpio’s […]
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Asean, China need reality check on South China Sea issue
Asean (the Association of South-east Asian nations) has let itself down again for buckling under external pressure and whitewashing the chairman’s statement of the 30th Asean Summit, which concluded in Manila over the weekend. Not for the first time, territorial disputes in the South China Sea were the spoiler. The Philippines’ decision to distance the […]
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Justice Carpio’s E-book on South China Sea dispute
THE political winds have indeed changed direction. On the same day that China-friendly statement of this year’s chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, President Rodrigo Duterte, was released to media, the Philippine and Chinese flags were seen raised in a Chinese warship, Chang Chun (DDG 150) that docked in a Davao city pier. […]
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Experts dismayed by Asean’s skipping of South China Sea issue
MANILA — Filipino security and maritime law experts were dismayed by the Philippines’ decision to sidestep the South China Sea dispute and set aside the country’s historic legal victory in the arbitral tribunal while chairing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Professor Jay Batongbacal, director of the UP College of Law Institute of Maritime […]
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Beijing gets its own way in ASEAN chair’s statement
BEIJING scored a diplomatic victory at the end of the 30th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, whose concluding document not only left out any mention of the landmark July 2016 international ruling against the basis of its exclusive claim to much of the South China Sea, but also deleted a reference to China’s […]
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Duterte reiterates need for legally binding code of conduct in South China Sea
The Philippines and Thailand on Tuesday called on the country’s neighbors to respect freedom of navigation and over-flight in disputed waters. READ: Duterte taunts Alejano: Siya ang mauna sa Spratlys “Respect for freedom of navigation and over-flight in the South China Sea is in the interest of all countries within and outside the region,” President […]
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ASEAN accepting South China Sea as China’s lake, says analyst
MANILA, Philippines — A draft Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chairman statement shows that the regional bloc is gradually accepting that the South China Sea has become “China’s lake,” an analyst said. Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor at University of New South Wales in Canberra, said that President Rodrigo Duterte, as this year’s ASEAN chair, […]
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China wasn’t there, but ruled the summit
THE SUMMIT meeting of the 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Nations held this week in Manila was dominated by a non-member that was not even in the conference hall. Through President Rodrigo Duterte, the summit chair, China succeeded in throwing into the dustbin the 2016 award by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at […]
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China revises mapping law to bolster claims over South China Sea land, Taiwan
BEIJING – China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, a top law-making body, passed a revised version of China’s surveying and mapping law intended to safeguard the security of China’s geographic information, lawmakers told reporters in Beijing. Hefty new penalties were attached to “intimidate” foreigners who carry out surveying work without permission. President Xi Jinping has […]
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Push for S.China Sea code stirs ASEAN suspicions about Beijing’s endgame
MANILA – China’s support for finalizing a code of conduct in the hotly contested South China Sea is generating some hope in Southeast Asia of settling disputes, but those working out the terms remain unconvinced of Beijing’s sincerity. Signing China up to a legally binding and enforceable code for the strategic waterway has long been […]
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OPINION: Lorenzana and the true Patriots
Here and abroad, the common (mis)perception is that the current government is too cozy with China and, correspondingly, relaxing its claims in the West Philippine Sea. After all, you have a chief executive, who never fails to praise Beijing as a friendly, brotherly nation, which could serve as an indispensable partner for national development in […]