Gilberto Teodoro Jr says it would be a "violation of the constitution" for officials in the Philippine government to ignore provocative confrontation from China - witnessed aboard a fishing vessel by Sky News in April.Thursday 20 June 2024 11:34, UK China Philippines ...
Her remarks were echoed by Senator Francis Escudero, who said the Philippines' maritime disputes with China should not justify the racial slurs against Chinese students. "The territorial dispute between the Philippines and China should not deter nor affect economic, cultural, educational, and other fo...
Tensions in the South China Sea may seem far off to Western investors, but any conflict in the region could affect the world economy.
If there's going to be a military conflict between the United States and China, the thinking in Washington goes, it will most likely happen if China tries to invade Taiwan. But lately tensions have escalated precariously in another part of theSouth China Sea-the waters off the western coast ...
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only the Philippines wanted a joint statement with reference to the arbitration, and Vietnam was not so persistent in its demands. Most ASEAN countries have maintained a neutral attitude. They neither want to see a division within the bloc, nor to be dragged into a conflict with China over ...
A Philippine security official says China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all options are on the table” for Manila’s response, including new international lawsuits.
The stand-off at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea has flared repeatedly since 2023 - with increasingly hostile confrontations sparking fears of a larger conflict that could involve the US.
a key global trading route. That has brought Philippine forces into frequent confrontations with China’s coast guard, navy and suspected militia boats and sparked fears that a bigger armed conflict could draw in the United States, the Philippines’ longtime treaty ally and China’s regional rival...
About 150,000 Filipinos work in Taiwan, and their safety is one of the government’s main concerns in the context of a potential conflict over the country, which China claims as its territory and has threatened to take by force. Dale, a Batan resident, says the Edca sites are ‘about Ch...