(L-R) National Security Adviser (NSA) Eduardo Año, Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo; and US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, and National Security...
Police Maj. Gen. Bernard Banac, director of the Philippine National Police's elite Special Action Force (SAF), discusses the importance of new training programs amid the evolving security challenges that include the brewing tension in the West Philippine Sea during the opening of the Basic Airborne...
President Marcos defended Vice President Sara Duterte against criticisms of her supposed silence in the territorial disputes with China over the West Philippine Sea. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte (Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook) During a media...
President Marcos told former president Rodrigo Duterte that he was willing to sit down with him to talk about his alleged secret deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the West Philippine Sea. File photos of President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (right) and former president Rodrigo...
West Philippine Sea (Wikipedia) A "strategic victory". That's how House Speaker Martin Romualdez called the United States (US) and Japan's solid commitment to uphold the Philippines' sovereignty and territorial integrity in the West...
DAVAO CITY – Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte has broken his silence and denied making any deal with China over the West Philippine Sea (WPS). FORMER President Rodrigo Duterte speaks in Davao City about the reported 'gentleman's agreement' with China over the West Philippine Sea as Rep....
The Chinese government has summoned the Philippines’ envoy to Beijing over supposed negative remarks about China. The Chinese embassy in Manila confirmed Friday, April 12, that China’s Foreign Ministry Director General for the Department of Asian Affairs Liu Jinsong met with Philippine...
(From left to right) President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., US President Joe Biden, and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (PCO) House Assistant Majority Leader and La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega expects the inaugural trilateral summit...
China’s embassy in Manila on Friday, April 12, said the defense pact between the Philippines and the United States will not affect Beijing, which asserts that its aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea are justifiable. “The US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty will not move us a...
The Philippines, the United States and Japan announced Friday, April 12, the formal establishment of a trilateral maritime cooperation to safeguard their peoples at sea as their leaders expressed concern about China’s dangerous and coercive actions both in the South and the East China Seas....
China attributed the Philippines’ supposed non-adherence to deals on the South China Sea to the rising tension in the waters as President Marcos already questioned the existence of a so-called “gentleman’s agreement." The Chinese Embassy in Manila Thursday, April 11, did not directly comment...
President Marcos said the government will no longer sit idly by while Filipino fishers continue to suffer from threats in the West Philippine Sea, Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel "Babe" Romualdez said. Romualdez said on Wednesday, April 10 (Washington time) the Philippine government...
