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Home»Posts tagged with»Spratly islands

China’s South China Sea expansion plans hit a wall in Indonesia (video)

China’s seemingly unstoppable expansion through the South China Sea finally hit a wall last week, an unyielding, uncompromising wall named Indonesia. Unlike in the Philippines where Chinese fishing and coast guard vessels seemingly have almost […]

By Stella-maris Ewudolu on January 12, 2020  

Words hurt: time for Asean leaders to speak up on SCS

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Words hurt: time for Asean leaders to speak up on SCS

Government officials and heads-of-state in Asean appears to have a collective aversion to speaking up in public about Chinese transgressions and coercion in the South China Sea (SCS). Such reticence is based on misplaced fears […]

By East Asia Forum on May 8, 2019  

Scarborough Shoal lost to China says Philippines spokesman

Scarborough Shoal lost to China says Philippines spokesman

Filipinos finally heard last Sunday (April 14) what many have dreaded hearing for sometime. Scarborough Shoal has been lost to China. The candid and perhaps unintentional admission, largely overlooked by the Philippine media, first came […]

By John Le Fevre on April 18, 2019  

Palawan: Philippines not ready for South China Sea war — Duterte

Palawan: Philippines not ready for South China Sea war — Duterte

In a pointed address from the strategic island of Palawan on Saturday (November 10) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said his country is “not ready” for a looming war in the South China Sea. The president […]

By Mark Roy on November 12, 2018  

Off the rocks: Philippine flagship BRP Gregorio del Pilar removed from shoal (video) *updated

The Philippine Navy managed to get its stranded flagship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, off Half Moon Shoal on Monday night, but the dignity of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) remains firmly aground. The […]

By Michael Johansen on September 4, 2018  

Goodbye Panatag Shoal, hello Huangyan Dao? (HD video) *updated

A ground-swell of discontent is gaining momentum in the Philippines to President Rodrego Duterte’s apparent preparedness to surrender control of Scarborough Shoal (Panatag Shoal or Bajo de Masinloc) to China (who call it Huangyan Dao), with […]

By Stella-maris Ewudolu on June 18, 2018  

War: Philippines says it will fight if ‘red line’ crossed… With what? (video)

War: Philippines says it will fight if ‘red line’ crossed… With what? (video)

Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday defended the administrations apparent soft stance against China saying the country would go to war if its new-found benefactor crosses a red line. Reporters in Manila […]

By Stella-maris Ewudolu on May 30, 2018  

Friendships set to be tested as US moves closer to war in ‘China’

Friendships set to be tested as US moves closer to war in ‘China’

‘The United States (US) has invaded China’. This would certainly be the message that Chinese President Xi Jin Ping will tell to the Chinese masses if ever US President Donald Trump makes good on his […]

By Jose Rodriguez T. Señase on February 2, 2017  

Can Duterte Fulfill His Campaign Promises?

Can Duterte Fulfill His Campaign Promises?

Now that he is at the helm of the Philippine government the question that remains is: Will President Rodrigo Duterte be able to fulfill the campaign promises he made to the Filipino people during his […]

By Jose Rodriguez T. Señase on August 11, 2016  

China successfully divides Asean on the South China Sea (video)

China successfully divides Asean on the South China Sea (video)

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s whirlwind tour of Brunei, Cambodia and Laos between April 22 and 24, 2016 courted support for his country’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. But the issue of China’s […]

By East Asia Forum on July 25, 2016  

Brinkmanship in the South China Sea helps nobody

Brinkmanship in the South China Sea helps nobody

Recent months have seen a continuing increase in military activities in the South China Sea, particularly by the United States and China, but also by ‘bit players’ like India and Japan. These activities only serve […]

By East Asia Forum on June 20, 2016  

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