President Marcos is optimistic that his trilateral meeting with US President Joseph Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will result in sustained peace and stability in the South China Sea. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., US President Joseph Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister...
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...
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...
Any attack on Philippine aircraft, vessels, or its military in the South China Sea would invoke the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), United States President Joe Biden pronounced. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and US President Joe Biden (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Biden made the...
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....
Despite repeatedly conducting dangerous maneuvers against Philippine vessels in the waters, China believes “there is no issue with regard to the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea,” questioning the moves by the Philippines and its allies to form multilateral maritime cooperation....
China conducted its own “combat patrols” in the disputed South China Sea on Sunday, April 7, the same day joint naval drills were conducted by the Philippines, the United States, Japan, and Australia. A statement published on state-owned Global Times said that the “Southern Theater...
Philippine Navy ship BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PS15) and US Navy ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCs 10) sail together in the West Philippine Sea during the third Maritime Cooperative Activity (MCA) on Feb. 9, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Armed Forces of the Philippines) The Philippines will hold a joint...
China hit back at Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gibo Teodoro after accusing Beijing of doing propaganda trap regarding the West Philippine Sea. For China, it is the Philippines that is supposedly doing propaganda whenever the latter complains about Beijing’s bullying of smaller...
The United States expressed its “ironclad” commitment to the Philippines under a defense treaty that it affirmed also covers armed attacks against the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), which is now caught in the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. An April 1 (US time) readout of the...
As President Marcos announced “a response and countermeasure package” against the dangerous attacks by the China Coast Guard (CCG) in the disputed South China Sea, the Chinese Foreign Ministry maintained that doing so will not affect its maritime rights and interests. During the regular...
President Marcos has issued Executive Order (EO) No. 57, which aims to strengthen the country's maritime security amid China's recent aggressive tactics and threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). File photos Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin signed the six-page EO on March 25, the same week...
