The United States stands with our Philippine allies in the face of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Coast Guard’s reported use of laser devices against the crew of a Philippine Coast Guard ship on February 6 in the South China Sea. The PRC’s conduct was provocative and unsafe, resulting in the temporary blindness of […]
Op-Ed for TMT Rafael M. Alunan III Feb. 14, 2023 Future ready Over a week ago, U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan, who heads the Air Mobility Command, told his troops to get battle ready for 2025 when he expects the U.S. and China to clash. If war breaks out, his command that transports […]
“With respect to the Philippines’ Submission No. 5, the Tribunal concludes that both Mischief Reef and Second Thomas Shoal are located within 200 nautical miles of the Philippines’ coast on the island of Palawan and are located in an area that is not overlapped by the entitlements generated by any maritime feature claimed by China. […]
MANILA Philippines — Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio lauded the recent pronouncement by President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that he would assert the 2016 decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration favoring Manila against Beijing’s sweeping claims to virtually the entire South China Sea. Source: https://globalnation.inquirer.net/204221/carpio-marcos-wps-stand-a-welcome-sea-change
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United States President Joe Biden said on Saturday he hoped to strengthen cooperation in Asia beyond treaty allies South Korea and Japan, as he repeated his now common expression that democratic nations needed to gird themselves against rising autocracy. Read more: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3178638/biden-touts-wider-regional-cooperation-meeting-south-koreas-yoon
By Amb. Albert Del Rosario Date: September 23, 2020 We welcome the fact that President Duterte invoked the 2016 Arbitral Award won by the Philippines against China regarding the South China Sea at the 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA). This is the first time that our President addressed the UNGA and we are heartened to […]
I personally commend the strong stand that President Rodrigo Duterte made before the UN General Assembly that the arbitral award in the South China Sea Arbitration is “beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish or abandon.” It is heartening that President Duterte has welcomed “the increasing number of states that […]
The United States champions a free and open Indo-Pacific. Today we are strengthening U.S. policy in a vital, contentious part of that region — the South China Sea. We are making clear: Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control […]
Today marks the 4th anniversary of the rendering of the unanimous award in the South China Sea Arbitration case in favor of the Philippines issued by the Tribunal constituted under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS). The arbitration case initiated and overwhelmingly won by the Republic of […]