Title:

 Duterte: China just wants to be a friend of PH

Author:

Dharel Placido

Source:

ABS-CBN News

Date:

 April 2, 2019

Description:

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday defended anew his administration's relationship with China, saying Beijing just wants to become a friend of the Philippines. Since assuming the presidency, Duterte has chosen to forge closer ties with China, setting aside Manila’s dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea.

Title:

 PH will disclose infra deals with China, Palace assures

Author:

Julie M. Aurelio

Source:

ABS CBN News

Date:

 March 19, 2019

Description:

Malacañang is open to disclosing infrastructure agreements with Chinese companies to promote transparency in the bureaucracy. Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the assurance on Monday, as Philippine officials head to Beijing this week to discuss possible infrastructure cooperation with China.

Title:

 China-funded Kaliwa dam a done deal: MWSS

Author:

ABS CBN News

Source:

ABS CBN News

Date:

 March 18, 2019

Description:

The government agency in charge of ensuring Metro Manila's water supply said on Monday that the China-funded plan to build a new dam in the town of Infanta, Quezon is a "done deal" despite opposition from environmentalists and local residents. Local officials and residents of Infanta have opposed the dam's construction over concerns it would flood several villages and displace residents. Members of the indigenous Dumagat who live in the Sierra Madre mountains have also said that they don't want the Kaliwa dam constructed on their ancestral domain.

Title:

 China Asks State Firms to Avoid Travel to U.S. and Its Allies

Author:

Bloombeg News

Source:

Bloomberg News

Date:

January 15, 2019 

Description:

China asked some state-run enterprises to avoid business trips to the U.S. and its allies and to take extra precautions to protect their devices if they need to travel, according to people familiar with the request. In recent weeks, the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission -- a regulatory body that oversees about 100 government-run companies -- has told some firms to only take secure, company-issued laptops meant for overseas use if traveling is necessary, the people said. They said the warning extended to the other countries in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing pact: the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Title:

 China tests own 'mother of all bombs' – state-run media

Author:

CNN Philippines Staff

Source:

CNN Philippines

Date:

January 5, 2019 

Description:

China tested its own version of the "mother of all bombs," state-run Global Times said in a report Thursday. Global Times posted a video from China Ordnance Industries Group Corporation Limited, locally known as NORINCO, showing the bomb's "huge destruction potential that is claimed to be only second to nuclear weapons."

Title:

 Sinking US aircraft carriers will resolve tension in South China Sea, says Chinese admiral

Author:

Bradford Betz

Source:

Fox News

Date:

 January 4, 2019

Description:

The deputy head of a Chinese military academy told an audience in Shenzhen last month that tensions in the South China Sea could be resolved by sinking a pair of U.S. aircraft carriers, reports said. "What the United States fears the most is taking casualties," said Rear Admiral Lou Yuan, deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, news.com.au reported. He said sinking one carrier would kill 5,000 and sinking two would double that number.

Title:

 China, Philippines agree to step up legislative exchanges

Author:

 

Source:

Chinese Embassy in Manila

Date:

November 21, 2018

Description:

MANILA, Nov. 21,Visiting President Xi Jinping has called on legislative bodies from China and the Philippines to further exchange experience in state governance and push forward multilevel, multiform cooperation for the development of the two nations' bilateral ties.

Title:

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on November 21, 2018

Author:

FMPRC

Source:

FMPRC

Date:

November 21, 2018

Description:

Q: According to reports, on November 20, under the witness of the two state leaders, China and the Philippines signed an inter-governmental memorandum of understanding (MOU) on oil and gas development. Could you tell us more about it?

Title:

 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang's Regular Press Conference on November 1, 2018

Author:

Lu Kang

Source:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

Date:

November 1, 2018 

Description:

Q: According to reports, China recently commenced the operations of a maritime observation center, a meteorological observatory and a national environmental and air quality monitoring station on reefs of the Nansha Islands. Do you have more details?
A: Recently, China has begun operating a maritime observation center, a meteorological observatory and a national environmental and air quality monitoring station on reefs of the Nansha Islands. These projects are designed to observe the maritime, hydrological, meteorological conditions and air qualities and provide such services as maritime warning and forecast, tsunami alert, weather forecast, air quality forecast and disaster prevention and relief. At the end of July, China's rescue ship Nanhai Jiu 115 was stationed in the relevant reefs of the South China Sea, which has effectively strengthened the search and rescue forces in the central and southern parts of the South China Sea and provided effective safeguards to navigation security in the South China Sea. It has carried out several search and rescue operations and played an important role.

Title:

 PH-China working on Xi Jinping's state visit to Manila

Author:

Joyce Ann L. Rocamora

Source:

PNA

Date:

 September 28, 2018

Description:

MANILA -- Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua on Thursday night said Philippines and China are preparing for President Xi Jinping's state visit to the country by end of the year. "The plan is that he will come to the Philippines for a state visit but the specific date and month have not been finalized yet so we’re in close coordination with the Filipino side to prepare for the, most likely, state visit," he told reporters in Makati City.

Title:

 China requests WTO authorization to impose $7bln in sanctions on US over dumping violations

Author:

CGTN

Source:

CGTN

Date:

September 12, 2018

Description:

China applied to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday to impose seven billion US dollars' worth of annual sanctions on US goods in retaliation for Washington's failure to comply with a ruling in a dispute over US dumping duties.