Code of Conduct – our best hope for peace
UNITED States President Donald Trump offered to mediate in the South China Sea disputes in the course of his meetings ...
Tag: South China Sea
Will China ever change?
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China have finally agreed to carry out negotiations for an effective code ...
Duterte tackles South China Sea, North Korea issues
President Duterte discussed the maritime dispute over the South China Sea during his bilateral talks with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm ...
Meetings with Xi, Putin were productive – Rody
President Duterte said yesterday that his bilateral meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the ...
Trump offers to ‘mediate’ in sea dispute
US President Donald Trump told his Vietnamese counterpart yesterday he is ready to help resolve the dispute in the resource-rich ...
ASEAN to seek COC in South China Sea
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China are poised to give a green light to start ...
Gov’t scraps sandbar plan after China anger
President Duterte ordered troops to scrap plans of building a shelter for Filipino fishermen at Sandy Cay near Pagasa Island ...
China unveils massive vessel
China has unveiled a massive ship described as a “magic island maker’’ that is Asia’s largest dredging vessel, state media ...
Closer ties with China, Russia, and the US
JOINT military exercises with the United States were scaled down last year following President Duterte’s call for a more independent ...
US carrier finds company as it conducts drills on S. China Sea
As the commanders of the largest US warship in Asia seek to maintain operational readiness amid protracted tensions over North ...
Freedom of Navigation
A UNITED States Navy destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, carried out last week what the US calls a “Freedom ...
More open, more independent
WE may have begun to see the new foreign policy of the country at work during the just-concluded Association of ...
A very positive ASEAN joint communique
MANY will find the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ joint communiqué on the South China Sea disputes ...
Issues before ASEAN ministers meeting in Manila
All throughout this week, the foreign ministers of the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, ...
SEA countries feud over China sea claims
Southeast Asian nations were battling yesterday to find a compromise on how to deal with Chinese expansionism in the South ...
Vietnam wants stronger SEA stand vs China expansionism
Vietnam urged other Southeast Asian nations to take a stronger stand against Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea as ...