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US National Security Advisor O’Brien visits PH

Eloisa Lopez, Reuters
Posted at Nov 23 11:40 AM

U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr. are pictured with precision-guided munitions among other defense articles during a turnover ceremony, at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Pasay City on Monday. Read more »

Lorenzana raises arbitral ruling in meeting with Chinese counterpart

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 11 07:14 PM

MANILA - Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday restated the Philippines’ adherence to the arbitral ruling on its claim in the West Philippine Sea during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart.  Read more »

ANALYSIS: Reading between the lines of Duterte’s VFA half a turnaround

Romel Regalado Bagares, VERA Files*
Posted at Jun 04 09:55 PM

The big conditional points to a pending purchase by the Philippines of six advanced combat helicopters, which had already been cleared by the US State Department but is being opposed by Philippine and American human rights groups.  Read more »

ANALYSIS: Indonesia’s new diplomatic bombshell vs Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea

Romel Regalado Bagares, VERA Files
Posted at May 30 10:25 PM

In its running territorial tiff with China over the Natuna islands, Indonesia had just lobbed a diplomatic bombshell.    Read more »

OPINION: The bully in the schoolyard

Karim Raslan -- Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Jan 27 04:09 PM

We in ASEAN have our differences, but bullies can’t mistreat the smaller kids in the schoolyard if we’re united. Read more »

OPINION: Why this Vietnamese academic doubts an ASEAN-China COC deal

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Jan 14 12:02 PM

Why this Vietnamese academic thinks ASEAN is unlikely to conclude with China a ‘meaningful’ Code of Conduct in South China Sea.  Read more »

Indonesia’s New Year’s message to China over the Natunas dispute: A game changer?

Romel Regalado Bagares*, VERA Files
Posted at Jan 05 09:31 PM

For the first time, a 3rd party ASEAN member-state invoked the landmark 2016 arbitral ruling in the South China Sea case filed by the Philippines 3 years earlier against Chinese expansionism. Read more »

Kim Jong Un visits China

Huang Jingwen, Xinhua via Reuters
Posted at Jan 10 08:40 PM

Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcoming ceremony for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on January 8, 2019, in this picture released by Xinhua on Thursday.  Read more »

Duterte says China should tell South China Sea claimants how to avoid dispute

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 14 11:49 PM

At the second day of the 33rd ASEAN Summit in Singapore, President Rodrigo Duterte said China should instruct fellow claimant-countries on how to best avoid dispute in the contested waters. Read more »

ASEAN draft code of conduct with China signals start of negotiations: analyst

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 03 06:44 PM

A draft of the code of conduct (COC) China and Southeast Asian Nations is significant since it at least signals the start of negotiations on regulations to govern behavior in the South China Sea, an analyst said Friday. Read more »

Duterte: What’s the point of questioning Chinese planes?

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 16 08:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday again defended his stance on the South China Sea dispute, suggesting it was already pointless to question China’s deployment of its air assets to its artificial islands in the Spratlys archipelago. Read more »

OPINION: Tension in Taiwan Straits

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Updated as of Sep 22 06:21 PM

It’s not only in the disputed waters of South China Sea that China is flexing its muscle.  It is also making troubling actions in Taiwan Straits.  Read more »