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As COVID-19 cases edge up, Taiwan unveils mass vaccination plan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 02 06:53 PM

Taiwan reported a rise in domestic coronavirus infections on Wednesday after 6 days of falls, and unveiled details of a mass vaccination plan that aims to eventually cover 1.7 million people a week.  Read more »

US Secretary of State: China poses 21st century’s greatest geopolitical challenge

Mark Magnier, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 04 01:58 PM

China is the biggest geopolitical challenge that the United States faces in the 21st century, one that pales beside the likes of Russia or the Middle East, the US Secretary of State said on Wednesday in an address outlining the Biden administration’s foreign policy priorities.   Read more »

No offer, no inquiry from US on Duterte's payment demand for VFA: Palace

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 03:09 PM

The United States has yet to make an offer or an inquiry on President Rodrigo Duterte's demand for Washington to "pay" for a troop deal with Manila, Malacañang said on Tuesday.    Read more »

Palace denies 'extortion' after Duterte demands US payment over VFA

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 15 05:32 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte seeks "just compensation" for a troops deal with the United States, Malacañang said on Monday, denying an alleged "extortion" from the Philippines' only treaty ally. Read more »

Tough on US, soft on China? Palace says Duterte being good neighbor to Beijing

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 04:22 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte seeks to be a good neighbor to Beijing, Malacañang said on Monday, in connection to his recent pronouncements on China and its rival US.  Read more »

Duterte tells US: Want to keep VFA? You have to pay

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 13 05:26 PM

Duterte said on Friday the US must "pay" a certain toll if it wanted to keep its Visiting Forces Agreement with Philippines, a pact central to Washington's Asia strategy. Read more »

Palace: Protest vs China coast guard law shows Philippines will 'assert all rights'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 03:28 PM

The Philippines will "assert all its rights", as proven by its diplomatic protest against a new China law that allowed its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels and tear down structures that other countries built on contested waters, Malacañang said on Thursday.    Read more »

South China Sea: Chinese military deploys ballistic missile’s launchers for training

Minnie Chan, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jan 26 12:45 PM

The destinations of DF-26 missile’s launchers put India within its range and pose a threat to US naval base in Japan. China had last year staged a drill in which a DF-26 missile was launched into the South China Sea to target a moving ship. Read more »

China envoy confirms delivery of Sinovac vaccines in PH 'as early as next month'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 06:32 PM

COVID-19 vaccines developed by China-backed pharmaceutical company Sinovac may arrive "as early as next month," Beijing's envoy confirmed Friday, as he cited "new era of partnership" between the two countries amid the pandemic.  Read more »

Geopolitics made pandemic far worse: expert

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 03:10 AM

GENEVA - Geopolitical tensions in play before the COVID-19 pandemic colored the international health response, dramatically deepening the crisis, a renowned political scientist and global health expert told AFP. Read more »

Japan, US to boost defense ties with Europe in Indo-Pacific

Ko Hirano, Kyodo News
Posted at Jan 05 02:16 PM

Japan and the United States have welcomed planned naval deployments this year by major European countries to Indo-Pacific waters, as China's rapid military modernization and maritime and territorial ambitions prompt moves to increase deterrence.   Read more »

With little ado, a divided United Kingdom casts off into the Brexit unknown

Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton, Reuters
Posted at Jan 01 10:01 AM

After years of Brexit vitriol, one of the most significant events in European history since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union passed with little fanfare: The United Kingdom slipped away, serenaded by the silence of the COVID-19 crisis.   Read more »

NATO report says China could pose military threat to Europe and US

Stuart Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 02 12:26 PM

Member nations are called on to ‘increase capacity to anticipate and react to Chinese activities that undermine allies’ security’. The report was written by 10 independent experts appointed by Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Read more »

German politicians call for US, Europe to form united front on China

Stuart Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Oct 27 01:48 PM

Germany's Defense chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer suggests a ‘newly strengthened Western trade alliance’. And top diplomat Heiko Maas says future of transatlantic relations will be ‘determined by the right way of dealing with Beijing’. Read more »

US-China rivalry: is the Quad on track to take on Beijing?

Catherine Wong, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Oct 08 02:49 PM

As the United States seeks to formalize a four-nation alliance to counter China’s growing influence in the Asia-Pacific, Chinese foreign policy observers are asking whether Beijing’s assertiveness has pushed its regional neighbors closer to Washington. Read more »

France, Germany, UK reject China's sweeping claims in South China Sea in joint note verbale

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 17 09:09 PM

France, Germany and the United Kingdom filed a joint note verbale, dated Sept. 16, with the United Nations in New York, rejecting China’s sweeping claims over the South China Sea. Read more »

Scaled-down U.S.-led Pacific naval drill starts amid pandemic

Kyodo News
Posted at Aug 18 08:01 PM

The exercise, known as RIMPAC, is being held amid heightened tensions over China's rising assertiveness in the South China Sea, while Sino-U.S. ties are also tense over Beijing's military activities in and around the Taiwan Strait. Read more »

Japan, U.S., Australia express "deep concern" over H.K. security law

Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 08 12:51 PM

Japan, the United States and Australia on Wednesday expressed "deep concern" over China's recent implementation of a sweeping security law in Hong Kong that is feared will restrict human rights and freedoms in the territory. Read more »

Taiwan warns off Chinese fighters which approached island

Reuters
Updated as of Jun 09 03:48 PM

Taiwan's air force warned off several Chinese fighter jets that briefly entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone to its southwest on Tuesday, Taiwan's defense ministry said.   Read more »

Oil surges after Gulf tanker attacks, stocks claw higher

Marc Jones, Reuters
Posted at Jun 13 05:38 PM

Suspected attacksSuspected attacks on two tankers off the coast of Iran saw oil markets erupt out of their recent slump on Thursday. on two tankers off the coast of Iran saw oil markets erupt out of their recent slump on Thursday. Read more »