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The Philippines deployed maritime forces on Friday (November 13), bolstering its security a few days before the APEC summit in Manila. The deployment marked the full activation of maritime security measures as coast guard, navy, and police surface vessels set out from the headquarters of the Philippine coast guard in Manila. Coast guard personnel, police, and Marines boarded boats equipped with machine guns in Manila Bay, situated next to the venue of the leaders meeting […]
United States Ambassador to the Philippines, Philip Goldberg, confirmed that there will be a bilateral meeting between President Barack Obama and President Benigno S. Aquino III during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ or APEC Summit, adding that it is normal for the APEC host country to hold bilateral talks with other countries during said summit to strengthen the relations between the two countries. Issues to be tackled in the said bilateral talks include the territorial […]
In response to the invitation extended by Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, is now in the Philippines for a working visit. Said visit is also in preparation for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Philippines to attend the APEC Summit. The visit of President Xi Jinping is much anticipated due to the rising tensions between the Philippines and China due to the ongoing territorial disputes […]
The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech on Saturday (November 7) although he gave no timeline for any such actions. “We’ve done them before, all over the world,” Carter said at a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. “And we will do them again.” China claims most of the South China Sea, through which […]
(Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday (November 4) defended U.S. naval presence in the South China Sea, and said the inability of ASEAN defense ministers to reach a consensus reflected their concern about China’s activity in the area. Disagreement between the United States and China over how to address rival claims in the South China Sea marred a gathering of Southeast Asian defence officials on Wednesday, with a joint statement scrapped after ministers failed to […]
(Reuters) — Disagreement between the United States and China over how to address rival claims in the South China Sea marred a gathering of Southeast Asian defence officials on Wednesday (November 4), with a joint statement scrapped after ministers failed to agree on its wording. Malaysian Minister of Defence Hishammuddin Hussein said during a news conference that a consensus had not been reached. “We couldn’t reach a consensus on the joint declaration and instead […]
The Philippines is going to present the Washington Treat of 1900 to the international arbitral tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands. Said treaty stipulates that the Spratlys Island is part of the Philippine territory. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
The attorney representing the Philippines in a dispute with China over territorial claims to the South China Sea on Friday (October 30) said a Hague court’s decision to hear the case would test the rule of law in international maritime cases. “I think that this a real test of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the rules of international law, which are embodied therein. Either the convention is a relevant, […]
(Reuters) — The wreckage of a Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers that crashed in Egypt killing all on board lay scattered along the Sinai peninsula’s mountainous dry landscapes on Saturday (October 31). The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said. A militant group affiliated […]
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of the strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday (October 29), a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy. The policy is a major liberalization of the country’s family planning restrictions, already eased in late 2013 when Beijing said it would allow more families to have two children providing the parents met certain conditions. […]
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday (October 27), drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest. The USS Lassen’s patrol was the most significant U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built up in the Spratly archipelago as Beijing […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Want Yi warned the United States “not to make trouble out of nothing” in response to U.S Navy’s plan to send a destroyer to the South China Sea. A U.S defense official said the U.S. Navy plans to send a destroyer within 12 miles of China’s island in the South China Sea within the next 24 hours, according to the Cable News Network. Wang, who is attending a China-Japan-South Korea seminar in […]
