Dec. 9, 2023: The Chinese coast guard surrounds a supply ship, blasts it with a water cannon in the area around Second Thomas Shoal. The head of the Philippine military, who was aboard the supply boat, says they were also “bumped” by a Chinese ship. Nov. 10, 2023: China blasts Ph...
On Manila’s increasingly hostile disputes with Beijing, Marcos stressed the Philippines would not back down but would only resort to peaceful means to resolve any dispute. “The West Philippine Sea is not only a figment of our imagination. It belongs to us,” Marcos said, using the Philippine...
On the basis of population density (see Methods), only one city had a very high heat exposure index, and this was Manila City (Fig.3b). In fact, as of 2015, Manila City, with a population density of 42,628 people per km2 33, was the most densely populated city, not only in th...