Wow! Thank you venerable Rigoberto Tiglao for grouping citizen Golez with Vice President Robredo and Acting Chief Justice Carpio. An honor!!! Except Rigoberto showed lack of rigor đđđwhen he displayed blissful ignorance by saying I don’t know the geography of Woody Island and the rest of the Paracels. THE STRATEGIC TRIANGLE: FYI, Woody Island has […]
Yesterday I set out the background to the Position Paper issued by the China, on December 7, 2014, âon the Matter of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration initiated by the Republic of the Philippinesâ [hereafter, âChina Position Paperâ] and examined Chinaâs first objection to the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal. In this post, […]
On December 7, 2014, China officially published its Position Paper âon the Matter of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration initiated by the Republic of the Philippinesâ [hereafter, âChina Position Paperâ]. The China Position Paper was issued two days after the US State Department issued its December 5, 2014 Limits in the Seas No. […]
MATTHEW BOULTON, James Wattâs partner in the development of the steam engine and one of the 18th centuryâs greatest industrialists, was in no doubt about the importance of Britainâs first embassy to the court of the Chinese emperor. âI conceiveâ, he wrote to James Cobb, secretary of the East India Company, âthe present occasion to […]
The Spratly Islandsânot so long ago known primarily as a rich fishing groundâhave turned into an international flashpoint as Chinese leaders insist with increasing truculence that the islands, rocks, and reefs have been, in the words of Premier Wen Jiabao, âChinaâs historical territory since ancient times.â Normally, the overlapping territorial claims to sovereignty and maritime […]
Fueled by China’s growing assertiveness as a rising global power, tensions over territorial disputes have mounted in the Asia-Pacific region. In November last year, Beijing unilaterally expanded its Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) to cover most of the East China Sea, triggering a bitter dispute with Tokyo as the ADIZ also covers the airspace above […]
Communist leftist funded by chinaâs government in the Philippines shout for panic for the comeback of US power and access to the old US Airbase in Clark. “The US game plan is clear. Washington will scare its puppet government in Manila about the possible outbreak of war between China and the Philippines and other Spratlys […]
Participants to the recently concluded 4th biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law in New Delhi, India last November 15, 2017 heard for the first time the Chinese position on the Philippine arbitral claim on the West Philippines Sea dispute. In the said conference, I delivered a paper entitled âWhat next after the […]
By RaĂŻssa Robles With the continuous incursions of Chinese ships into Philippine waters, a friend recently told me she is seriously thinking of migrating to another country. China might invade the Philippines, she said. When, she doesnât know, but she said sheâd rather go while still young and able to. While I see an actual […]
The hydrocarbon potential of the South China Sea (SCS) has become a source of tension between the littoral states of the region and, to a certain extent, a number of outside actors. However, the SCSâs significance to global oil and gas supplies is over-hyped. Instead, it is the regionâs fisheries rather than fossil fuels that […]