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Title:
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Philippines eyes 14% defense budget rise to secure seas, fight rebels
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Author:
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Manuel Mogato
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Source:
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GMA News
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Date:
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September 5, 2016
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Description:
- VIENTIANE - The Philippines is proposing a 14 percent increase in defense spending next year to buy new ships and aircraft to boost its fight against Islamist militants and enhance maritime security in the disputed South China Sea.
Information Archive on Philippine Foreign Policy
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Title:
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Philippines worried, says more Chinese boats spotted at disputed shoal
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Author:
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Manuel Mogato
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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September 4, 2016
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Description:
- The Philippines expressed "grave concern" on Sunday and demanded an explanation from China's ambassador over what it said was an increasing number of Chinese boats near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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Title:
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At China's G20, Economics Is The New Militarism
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Author:
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Gordon G. Chang
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Source:
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Forbes
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Date:
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September 4, 2016
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Description:
- Friday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said his country’s coast guard had spotted a number of Chinese barges at Bajo de Masinloc, what much of the world calls Scarborough Shoal. “What,” he asked, “is the purpose of a barge?”
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Title:
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Philippines’ Duterte says China building in disputed shoal
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Author:
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AFP-JIJI
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Source:
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The Japan Times
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Date:
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September 2, 2016
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Description:
- Beijing is expanding its large-scale land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday, despite an international court ruling rejecting most of China’s claims in the resource-rich area.
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Title:
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Personal contacts eyed to repair China relations
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Author:
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Christine F. Herrera
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Source:
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Manila Standard
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Date:
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September 2, 2016
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Description:
- SHANGHAI, China—In a bid to highlight mutual cooperation and friendly relations amid the ongoing dispute over the West Philippine Sea, the biggest and most influential media group here has chosen to send its government’s message to Chinese and Filipino citizens through journalists under a “people-to-people” exchange program.
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Title:
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Reluctant pursuit: The Duterte administration’s defense policy
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Author:
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Renato Cruz De Castro
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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September 2, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines - In 2010, President Benigno Aquino III declared his unequivocal support for the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Yet despite being determined to boost the AFP’s territorial defense capabilities, the Aquino administration had financial constraints.
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Title:
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ASEAN, China to adopt communications protocol to ease tensions at sea
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Author:
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Reporting By Manuel Mogato; Editing By Simon Cameron-Moore
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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September 2, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries and China will establish hotlines and adopt communications protocols to avoid potential naval clashes in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, a Philippines foreign ministry official said on Friday.
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Title:
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Lopez warns $6B at risk if PH cuts ties with China
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Author:
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Marc Jayson Cayabyab
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Source:
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Date:
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September 2, 2016
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Description:
- Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez told lawmakers Friday that cutting ties with China due to tension over the West Philippine Sea could cost the country some $6 billion in exports.
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Title:
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Canada becomes latest US ally to apply for China-backed AIIB
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Author:
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Reuters
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Source:
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The Indian Express
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Date:
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September 1, 2016
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Description:
- Canada will apply to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, or AIIB, Canadian and bank officials said on Wednesday, making it the latest ally of the United States to join the new international development bank. The multilateral institution, seen as a rival to the Western-dominated World Bank and Asian Development Bank, was initially opposed by the United States but attracted many US allies including Britain, Germany, Australia and South Korea as founding members.
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Title:
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Commentary: Revamping global economic governance in due course
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Author:
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Liu Jie
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Source:
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Xinhua
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Date:
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September 1, 2016
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Description:
- HANGZHOU, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- When the Group of 20 (G20) leaders gather in China seeking a remedy for sluggish global economic growth, something equally consequential will also be on the table: revamping global economic governance.
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Title:
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Is Duterte Upending Philippine Foreign Policy?
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Author:
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Richard Javad Heydarian
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Source:
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Council on Foreign Relations
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Date:
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September 1, 2016
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Description:
- While the world is transfixed by the Duterte administration’s ‘shock and awe’ crackdown on the drug trade, which has drawn global condemnation for its alleged widespread use of extrajudicial killings yet enjoys significant domestic support, the newly-inaugurated President Rodrigo Duterte, a self-described ‘socialist’, is also shaking up Philippine foreign policy. So far, however, under the country’s new firebrand leader, the country has seen more change than continuity in its foreign policy.
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Title:
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One Result Of China's Buildup In South China Sea: Environmental Havoc
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Author:
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Jackie Northam
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Source:
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NPR
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Date:
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September 1, 2016
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Description:
- Just over a month ago, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued two important rulings. One soundly rejected Beijing's extensive claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea. The other focused on whether China had caused environmental damage as it constructed artificial islands in the region to help prop up its claim.
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Title:
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Japan eyes record defense budget for anti-ship missiles
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Author:
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AFP
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Source:
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The Manila Times
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Date:
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August 31, 2016
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Description:
- TOKYO: Japan’s defense ministry requested a record budget on Wednesday, with funds for an anti-ship missile system to defend islands at the center of a territorial dispute with China.
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Title:
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PH eyes provisional agreement to allow Filipino fishermen in Scarborough Shoal
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Author:
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CNN Philippines Staff
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Source:
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CNN Philippines
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Date:
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August 31, 2016
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Description:
- Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — More than two months after the Philippines won its maritime case against China in The Hague, Filipino fishermen are still barred from entering Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panatag Shoal.
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Title:
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Philippines Says China Must Recognize South China Sea Ruling
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Author:
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Reuters
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Source:
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Jakarta Globe
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Date:
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August 31, 2016
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Description:
- Manila. China will be the "loser" if it does not recognize an international court ruling against its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said on Tuesday (30/08). An arbitration court in The Hague infuriated China in July when it ruled that China had no historical title over the South China Sea and it had breached the Philippines' sovereign rights.
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Title:
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Philippines says China must recognize South China Sea ruling
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Author:
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Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Nick Macfie
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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August 30, 2016
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Description:
- China will be the 'loser' if it does not recognize an international court ruling against its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Philippine Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said on Tuesday.
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Title:
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China open to bilateral talks but won’t accept Hague ruling
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Author:
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Nestor Corrales
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Source:
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Date:
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August 29, 2016
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Description:
- The Chinese government is willing to have bilateral talks with the Philippines but insists that it will not recognize the Hague ruling.
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Title:
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China’s slowdown and PH growth (Part III)
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Author:
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Bernardo M. Villegas
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Source:
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Manila Bulletin
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Date:
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August 28, 2016
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Description:
- With more amicable relations with China under the Duterte Administration, we may attract more Chinese companies to participate in our massive infrastructure projects in the coming six years. In more than 20 years of building the most modern infrastructures in the world today, Chinese companies have accumulated a great deal of expertise in building airports, tollways, bullet trains, dams, and other infrastructure. Some of them can participate in the Swiss challenges that will be highly encouraged by the Duterte administration. Also, we may obtain substantial financing from the China Infrastructure Bank that was recently established, in which the Philippines is a participating member. The slowdown in China may actually benefit us in that their infrastructure companies will be aggressively looking for business opportunities in the ASEAN economic community.
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Title:
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China factor in the Asean stage
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Author:
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Ho Wah Foon
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Source:
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The Star
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Date:
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August 28, 2016
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Description:
- Beijing has always viewed Kuala Lumpur as a special friend given the long relationship the two countries have shared. For Malaysia and China, the focus should be on the convergence of interests. MALAYSIA has been very quiet on issues relating to the South China Sea (SCS) – Kuala Lumpur and several Asean nations, as well as China, have laid overlapping claims on it – but analysts opine Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is unlikely to change his pro-China stance anytime soon.
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Title:
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The Philippines' Misguided Plan to Stop South China Sea Tensions
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Author:
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Yanmei XieAdam Lee
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Source:
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The National Interest
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Date:
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August 16, 2015
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Description:
- Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos was in Hong Kong earlier this month to meet his “old friends” in hopes of breaking ice with Beijing. In a statement issued Thursday, Ramos and his interlocutors, including prominent Chinese diplomat Fu Ying, said they discussed the way forward “in the spirit of universal brotherhood and sisterhood for peace and cooperation between the two countries.”