Scarborough Shoal
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China Agrees to South China Sea Talks Amid New Row With Manila
ASEAN, China, Code of Conduct, Militarization, Philippines, Reuters, Scarborough Shoal, Second Thomas shoal, South China Sea Dispute(Reuters) – China agreed to hold formal talks with Southeast Asian nations on a plan to ease maritime tensions on Sunday as the Philippines accused it of causing “increasing militarization” of the South China Sea, one of Asia’s naval flashpoints. The rebuke by Philippine Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario at a regional summit in Brunei came a day after China’s state media…
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Are Filipinos united against China’s invasion of Ayungin?
At a fund raiser for the Filipino Advocates for Justice in Oakland on June 20, I sat down with the former national chair of Bayan USA to ask him if his group planned to join the July 24 global protest against China’s occupation of the Ayungin Reef. Model of the Philippine Independence Day float of US Pinoys about bring issue…
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18 Chinese maritime ships operating within Philippine territory
MANILA, Philippines – About 18 Chinese vessels are intruding into Philippine territory, raising the need to pour more resources to defense spending, a security official said Thursday. Vicente Agdamag, Deputy Director-General of the National Security Council Secretariat, said the deployment of the ships is in line with China’s aim to consolidate its control over the West Philippine Sea. “Right now,…
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South China Sea row risks wider clashes
ASEAN, Bajo de Masinloc, China, Panatag Shoal, Philippines, Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, UNCLOSFrom January through May, the South China Sea dispute continued to trend in a negative direction. Consistent with the pattern of developments over the past several years, the dispute continued to be characterized by an action-reaction dynamic in which attempts by one or other of the claimants – most notably, China, the Philippines and Vietnam – to uphold its territorial…
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States Parties to Convention on Law of the Sea Will Hold Twenty-third Meeting at Headquarters, 10-14 June
The twenty-third Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at Headquarters from 10 to 14 June. Often referred to as “the constitution for the oceans”, the landmark Convention was adopted on 10 December 1982 and entered into force on 16 November 1994. Its 320 articles and nine annexes govern…
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Developments in the West Philippines Sea
China, Henry Bensurto, Nine Dash Line, Philippines, Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, UNCLOSJune 25, 2012: Henry Bensurto of the Department of Foreign Affairs presentation of Philippine position. Download PDF: Bensurto_Presentation
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Philippines right to challenge China
Nine dashes, five judges, two contestants. It sounds like a reality television show. In fact, it is the rather obscure — but very important — beginning of a process to delineate fiercely disputed Asian maritime borders according to the rule of law, rather than the law of the jungle. The nine dashes belong to China. They mark what Beijing says…
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China’s mining occupation of the Philippines
While China’s brazen occupation of the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal, located just 125 nautical miles from Masinloc, Zambales, has captured all the national and international attention, little has been mentioned about China’s occupation of the Philippine mining industry, an entirely different issue from the Filipino Chinese (“Chinoys”) domination of the Philippine economy. For example, one of China’s vast army of mining…
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Beijing rejects arbitration over Philippines territorial spat
China should be careful how it looks to the international community, according to Professor Jerome Cohen of New York University. The drama about the disputed Scarborough Shoal or Huangyan Islands had the Philippines seeking international arbitration from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS. The Philippines have said they acknowledge that they are no match…
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China consolidates sea claims as Asian diplomacy struggles
Bajo de Masinloc, China, First Post World, Fishing Rights, Philippines, Reuters, Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea DisputeMASINLOC, Philippines (Reuters) – For decades, fishermen along the northwestern Philippine coast treated the teeming fishing grounds of the Scarborough Shoal as their backyard, less than a day’s boat ride away. Now, they see it as a foreign country. “I lost my livelihood when we lost the Scarborough Shoal to the Chinese,” said Mario Forones, a 53-year-old who owns three…