However, for some time, the Philippines has been pulling non-regional actors into South China Sea affairs to back Philippine provocations and the violation of China's sovereignty, he said, adding that the Philippines has been pursing selfish gains at the expense of the consensus reached by count...
BEIJING, June. 3 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Marcos's remarks concerning the South China Sea Issue disregard history and facts, and are designed to amplify the Philippines' wrongful position on the issues and deliberately distort and hype up the maritime situation, a Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
Philippine military report says China continues to fortify claims in the South China Sea
The Philippines refers to the portion of the South China Sea that it claims as the West Philippine Sea. China's embassy in Manila did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Philippine military earlier said the Chinese coastguard's continued aggressiv...
China and the Philippines have blamed each other after a collision between their coastguard ships, in a new flashpoint between the countries. The confrontation in the SouthChinaSea happened near Sabina Shoal, a disputed area in the Spratly Islands where overlapping claims are al...
China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea and has for years permanently deployed hundreds of coast guard and fishing vessels in disputed areas like the Spratlys, where it has dredged sand to build islands on reefs, and equipped them with missiles a...
CCTV:The Philippine Department of National Defense in a March 29 statement said that China’s recent statements on the South China Sea show that the Chinese government only intimidates smaller countries. On March 30, the Phili...
BANGKOK--China has been at odds with many other countries in the Asia-Pacific for years over its sweeping maritime claims, including almost all of the South China Sea, a strategic and resource-rich waterway around which Beijing has drawn a 10-dash-line on official maps to delineate what it...
Mao made the remarks at a regular news briefing when asked to comment on the collision between Chinese and Philippine boats in the South China Sea. Mao said that on March 5, two supply vessels and two Coast Guard vessels of the Philippines, without permission from the Chinese government, intr...
The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have also made territorial claims to some of the shoals. During the confrontation, Filipino crews counted a total of five China Coast Guard vessels, 18 boats belonging to Beijing’s “maritime militia” – and at a further distance, tw...