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A member of the House Committee on Flagship Programs and Projects sees the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) as a promising alternative funding source for the ambitious Mindanao Railways Project (MRP) following the Philippines’s decision to withdraw from loan negotiations with China.
CONGRESS is being asked to frontload remedial legislation in the midst of escalating tensions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).
THE United States Embassy in Manila is worried over the negative environmental impact of a massive reclamation project in Manila Bay and the involvement of a Chinese state-owned construction company.
THE slowdown in the economic growth of China is the main reason its citizens have not been traveling abroad, especially to the Philippines.
BEIJING—Most Filipinos probably have no idea about the ancient city of Xi’an unless they have read about or watched documentaries on the Terracotta Warriors, the renowned underground sculptures of soldiers of a Chinese emperor.
BOUND by mutual interests, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said the country and China are expected to continue their almost five-decade vibrant bilateral relations despite their territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea.
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. expressed great concern over the incidents of provocation by Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) despite his ongoing efforts to establish direct communication lines with Beijing.
FOLLOWING the recent close collision of the Philippines and Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. called for the adoption of the country’s “direct communication line” with Beijing.
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said the country has started ironing out its recent “conflicts” with China during his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang during the weekend.
SEN. Francis N. Tolentino prodded the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to carefully study the government’s plan to have another round of exploratory talks with the People’s Republic of China.
The chief of naval operations of the United States Navy and senior officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have pushed for collaboration between the US and the Philippines, including the conduct of joint training and exercises, to ensure security in the Indo-Pacific.
IT was a brief state visit by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to Beijing from January 3-5, but it yielded a treasure trove of investment pledges, infrastructure loans, and agreements to find lasting solutions to contentious issues in the South China Sea.
Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla said Monday his office is awaiting guidance from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for the resumption of negotiations between China and the Philippines in the area of oil and gas exploration.
BEIJING—More engagements between the government and Beijing are now set to resolve the territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) following the meeting of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and the National Congress of the People’s Republic of China Chairman Li Zhanshu on Wednesday.
PHILIPPINE Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) President George T. Barcelon said a “good mix of sectors” including the metal and agriculture sectors are set to participate in talks with Chinese firms to expand their market potential.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said countries beyond Asia must not interfere in the territorial dispute in the South China Sea (SCS).
FOLLOWING the termination of negotiations for the planned joint exploration between Manila and Beijing in the West Philippine Sea, a senior lawmaker on Sunday urged the government to lift the suspension of gas and oil drilling activities in Recto Bank.
A Chinese spy ship has entered the Philippine territory—from Palawan to Mindoro and then stayed in the Sulu Sea for three days—“without permission from the Philippine government,” the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported in a news statement.
MANILA, Philippines— Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III was buried in austere state rites during the pandemic Saturday with many remembering him for standing up to China over territorial disputes, striking a peace deal with Muslim guerrillas and defending democracy in a Southeast Asian nation where his parents helped topple a dictator.
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. on Tuesday apologized to his counterpart, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, for his expletive-laden tweets excoriating the continued presence of Chinese maritime militia vessels in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and their arrogance in telling Philippine military and fishery officials on radio, while conducting patrols, to “leave the area, this is Chinese territory.”
LABOR groups on Sunday said that claims made by President Duterte that the country did not lose any territory in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to China during his term is “misleading.”
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday ordered his department to fire off another diplomatic protest after China reiterated its claim over the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and warned the country’s Coast Guard and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to stop their joint maritime exercises.
NATIONAL Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said on Sunday that eight Chinese fishing vessels were spotted in the Pagasa Island area last week just as the government reported the presence of at least 220 Chinese maritime militia vessels near Bataraza, Palawan.
CITING China’s powerful economy bolstered by 800 million-middle class consumers, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Saturday said this imparts the Asian giant “an essential and imperative role in the post-pandemic global recovery.”
Over the weekend, China’s Vice Premier Wang Yang came to the Philippines as the highest-ranking Chinese official to visit the country during the Duterte administration. He came with a package of grants, loans and deals reportedly worth up to $6 billion, covering Philippine agricultural exports to China, and 15 infrastructure development plans, including those for bridges, railway systems, irrigation and a hydroelectric dam.
Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana’s disclosure that Chinese survey ships lingered for months in Benham Rise last year has set off alarm bells that call for immediate action to prevent further incursion by our giant neighbor into the country’s territorial waters. This resource-rich underwater plateau off the coast of Aurora is ours. There’s no point arguing about this fact. And it does not need a genius to figure out that China’s survey ships are there to spy on our natural resources, which is alarming.
China and its territorial claims have been pushed off the front pages lately in lieu of more domestic issues. The latest news is that the United States sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the area. Chinese media, on the other hand, reported a new passenger ship made its first voyage from the southern province of Hainan carrying 300 tourists to visit the disputed Paracel Islands.
During his childhood days, newly appointed Ambassador to Beijing Jose Santiago L. Santa Romana recalled that China, with its billion-plus population, was still a sleeping giant and a third-world country.
MALACAÑANG said on Wednesday the Philippines is setting aside temporarily the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration’s (PCA) ruling in favor of the Philippines in the territorial dispute in the South China Sea, to take advantage of economic benefits resulting from better relations with China.
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