US must ‘get used to China’s rise’ (China Daily) 07:38, May 22, 2014 Washington’s engagement in territorial issues ‘complicates problems’ Chinese and Western observers seemed to reach a consensus on Wednesday over President Xi Jinping’s proposal to establish a new framework for security cooperation in Asia, and he also […]
Philip Bowring says Beijing’s superiority complex and selective reading of Southeast Asian history have become the toxic brew fuelling tensions in the South China Sea Philip Bowring BIO China’s current behaviour vis-à-vis its South China Sea neighbours is aggressive, arrogant and smacks of Han chauvinism and ethnocentrism. Far from […]
The Philippines’ tough stance can only end in embarrassment (People’s Daily Online) 13:04, May 13, 2014 This year, the Philippines’ conduct on the South China Sea issue has been bewildering: At first, it pretended to be a victim of China’s “threat of force”, complained that China was preventing […]
Foreign minister hits back after John Kerry calls Chinese actions in South China Sea ‘provocative’ PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 13 May, 2014, 5:09pm Teddy Ng and Agencies in Hanoi and Washington Several thousand Vietnamese workers protested at Chinese-owned factories yesterday, vandalising some of them, as anger flared at Beijing’s […]
Beijing hits out after Philippines seizes fishing vessel and collision with Vietnamese boats Just Added from the diplomat.com – A low-quality version of that video has been posted on Youtube. It appears to have been taped by one of the media outlets that attended the press conference. English […]
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 06 May, 2014, 10:47am Agence France-Presse in Beijing Vietnam reacted furiously to a decision by Beijing to move a deep-water drilling rig into disputed waters for the first time. Photo: Xinhua China should give Vietnam a “lesson it deserves […]
PUBLISHED : Monday, 07 April, 2014, 11:44pm Agencies in Manila Philippine Police Superintendent Noel Calderon Alino (left) answers questions from reporters about Daniele Bosio (inset) beside Senior Superintendent Romulo Sapitula at a police station in Binan, south of Manila. Photo: AP – Philippine police have detained a vacationing […]
“The Philippines could do nothing but provoke China like a clown under the indulgence of some Western forces” (Global Times) 07:36, March 31, 2014 The Philippines on Sunday filed a case against China’s “territorial invasion” with the UN arbitral tribunal. This comes a day after a nearly two-hour standoff […]
Philippines boat carrying supplies to soldiers evades coastguard after a two-hour stand off PUBLISHED : Saturday, 29 March, 2014, 8:44pm UPDATED : Sunday, 30 March, 2014, 6:02am Agencies in Manila Philippine marines, members of a military detachment stationed aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, gesture at a Chinese coastguard […]
(People’s Daily Online) 08:35, March 14, 2014 – The Philippines’s ulterior motive – to occupy the reef – is unmistakable. – We will not take anything that isn’t ours, but we will defend every inch of territory that belongs to us.” The Philippines have chosen to turn a […]
Move to challenge China’s territorial claims in UN-backed court popular: poll UPDATED : Tuesday, 11 February, 2014, 1:27am Raissa Robles in Manila Philippine Foreign Affairs Department spokesman, Raul Hernandez. Photo: AFP A majority of Filipinos back the Philippine government’s move to challenge China’s territorial claims over the South […]
Tuesday, 12 November, 2013, 4:34am News›Asia DISASTER Staff reporters and agencies US and Japan send rescue teams China, the world’s second largest economy, has offered US$100,000 in aid to the Philippines in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan. It is the same amount as Vietnam, itself now battling to […]
Oct. 9, 2013 – 02:06PM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | TAIPEI — Taiwan has conducted a natural gas and oil survey in the disputed Spratly Islands, a legislator said Wednesday, the latest in a string of moves that risk stoking tensions over the South China Sea archipelago. A […]
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By Frances Mangosing MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Air Force has an evacuation plan for the 40,000 Filipinos in South Korea should tensions with North Korea escalate. “The Philippine Air Force has contingency plans in place for the repatriation and evacuation of our countrymen in foreign lands,” Colonel Miguel […]
News Desk Philippine Daily Inquirer Publication Date : 01-12-2012 Southeast Asia’s top diplomat warned yesterday of great anxiety over China’s plan to board and search ships that illegally enter what it considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea and said it could lead to naval clashes […]
From Jan 1, Hainan police will seize control of foreign ships which “illegally enter” Chinese waters. -Reuters Thu, Nov 29, 2012 Reuters CHINA – Police in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan will board and search ships which enter into what China considers its territorial waters in the disputed […]
A fresh row has broken out between India and China over territorial claims in the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin area in eastern Kashmir. In new passports, China’s maps show the two areas as Chinese territory. The Indian embassy in Beijing is said […]
By Manuel MogatoPosted 2012/11/22 at 4:58 am EST MANILA, Nov. 22, 2012 (Reuters) — The Philippines and Vietnam condemned Chinese passports containing a map of China’s disputed maritime claims on Thursday, branding the new design a violation of their sovereignty. The map means countries disputing the Chinese […]
. Patrick WinnNovember 21, 2012 06:00 BANGKOK, Thailand — China’s largest claimed island in the disputed South China Sea, Yongxing, is just over half the size of New York’s Central Park. Its next-largest claim in the sea, Taiping Island, would fit inside Beijing’s Forbidden City palace with […]
. Reuters Monday, Nov 19, 2012 PHNOM PENH – Japan warned on Monday that a row over the South China Sea could damage “peace and stability”in Asia as China stalled on a plan to ease tensions and disagreements flared between the Philippines and Cambodia over the dispute. The […]
October 3, 2012 | By Jillian C. York A Dark Day for the Philippines as Government Passes Cybercrime Act The government of the Philippines today has passed the troubling Cybercrime Prevention Act. The Act covers a range of offenses, but—as we wrote last month—is particularly problematic because of […]
