Scarborough Shoal
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Coast Guard to acquire 10 patrol ships from Japan
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Coast Guard expects to wrap up talks with the Japan International Cooperation Agency within the next few months for the acquisition of 10 brand-new patrol boats from Japan in late 2014 or early 2015. This was disclosed to the Inquirer on Thursday by Cmdr. Armand Balilo, PCG spokesperson, who said “the talks are ongoing.” […]
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China Agrees to Discuss ‘Code of Conduct’ Rules
ASEAN, China, Code of Conduct, Global Security, Philippines, Scarborough Shoal, Second Thomas shoal, South China Sea DisputeThis week the Association of Southeast Asian Nations appeared to make progress on addressing territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Following meetings in Brunei, the group announced that China had agreed to discuss a set of rules known as the “code of conduct” to avoid conflict in the disputed waters. Last year’s ASEAN forum […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]