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Title:
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China places coast guard under military command
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Author:
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Patricia Lourdes Viray
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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July 2, 2018
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines — In a move seen as a warning to other countries, China has placed its coast guard under the country's army.
Information Archive on Philippine Foreign Policy
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Title:
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Are Asean members still willing to support a provocative US in the South China Sea?
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Author:
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Mark J. Valencia
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Source:
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South China Morning Post
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Date:
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July 2, 2018
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Description:
- Mark J. Valencia says Asean claimants to features in the South China Sea are wavering in their support for a provocative American presence in the region, as they seek to find the right balance between China and the US
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Title:
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It’s Not Just China's Retaliatory Tariffs That Should Worry U.S. Businesses
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Author:
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CHARLIE CAMPBELL
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Source:
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TIME
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Date:
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April 2, 2018
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Description:
- On Monday, China hit back at the Trump administration’s decision to raise duties on steel and aluminum imports, imposing tariffs of up to 25% on 128 American goods — including pork, wine and fruit — worth an estimated $3 billion.
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Title:
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Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy Meets the US Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy
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Author:
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Chen-Sheng Hong and Logan Pauley
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Source:
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The Diplomat
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Date:
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June 28, 2018
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Description:
- On May 11, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched the “Indo-Pacific Affairs Section” as a component of its New Southbound Policy (NSP). This section aims to help Taiwan form meaningful relationships with countries in the Indo-Pacific that are predicated on arenas in which Taipei has a comparative advantage over Beijing, ultimately aiming to foster and preserve favorable geopolitical relationships at a time when China appears to be ever-expanding and increasingly bellicose. Taiwan’s NSP has potential convergences with the United States’ Free and Open Indo Pacific (FOIP) strategy. By aligning with FOIP, Taiwan has an opportunity to gain an important seat at the multilateral and international table, one that may help to preserve its autonomy and territorial sovereignty, but may also lead to the island functioning as a bargaining chip for U.S. counterbalances against China.
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Title:
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US-China trade war will spill into other Asian economics
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Author:
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Daniel Shane
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Source:
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CNN
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Date:
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June 28, 2018
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Description:
- President Donald Trump accuses China of unfair trade practices and is threatening to put new tariffs on as much as $450 billion of exports from China. The world's second biggest economy has vowed to retaliate.
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Title:
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PH not falling into ‘Chinese debt trap’ say key NEDA officials
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Author:
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Ben O. de Vera
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Source:
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Date:
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June 28, 2018
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Description:
- The Philippines is extra “careful” in borrowing from China to finance big-ticket projects even as three upcoming infrastructure ventures will be pitched for loans from the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, government economic managers said yesterday.
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Title:
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Chinese-led Bangon Marawi consortium disqualified due to fund shortage
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Author:
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Carmela Fonbuena
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Source:
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Rappler
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Date:
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June 27, 2018
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Description:
- The Chinese-led Bangon Marawi Consortium (BMC) tapped for the P17.2-billion rehabilitation of Marawi City was disqualified after failing to show financial capacity to complete the project.
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Title:
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China won’t concede an inch, Xi Jinping tells US defence chief Jim Mattis on South China Sea and Taiwan
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Author:
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Liu Zhen
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Source:
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South China Morning Post
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Date:
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June 27, 2018
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Description:
- Chinese president stands firm over disputed waters while advocating stronger inter-military relations to ‘lower scepticism and prevent misunderstanding’
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Title:
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Mattis becomes first U.S. defense chief to visit China under Trump
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Author:
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Phil Stewart, Ben Blanchard
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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June 26, 2018
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Description:
- U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday became the first Pentagon chief to visit China since 2014, starting a three-day trip with a goal of improving security dialogue with Beijing despite increasingly fraught Sino-U.S. relations.
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Title:
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USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippines after South China Sea patrol
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Author:
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Rambo Talabong
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Source:
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Rappler
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Date:
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June 26, 2018
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines – After patrolling unimpeded in the disputed South China Sea, nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan docks for the first time in the waters of longtime US ally Philippines.
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Title:
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Philippines readies $1bn samurai bond, the first in 8 years
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Author:
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HIDETAKE MIYAMOTO
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Source:
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Nikkei Asian Review
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Date:
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June 26, 2018
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Description:
- The Philippines plans to float $1 billion worth of yen-denominated bonds in August, the nation's finance secretary says, seeking to diversify sources of foreign funds and back President Rodrigo Duterte's massive infrastructure initiative.
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Title:
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative paved with risk and red herrings
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Author:
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Alvin A Camba and Kuek Jia Yao
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Source:
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East Asia Forum
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Date:
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June 26, 2018
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Description:
- There is no shortage of sceptics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Indeed, stories about the BRI often include the evocation of debt ‘traps’ and ‘vassal states’. While some concerns merit consideration, popular criticisms of the BRI tend to be built upon incomplete and distorted stereotypes, which only draws attention away from the actual shortcomings of the BRI that need to be addressed.
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Title:
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2 Philippine Navy ships join Pacific Rim exercise
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Author:
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Michael Punongbayan
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Source:
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Philippine Star
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Date:
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June 25, 2018
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Description:
- Two of the Philippine Navy’s biggest ships joined the United States, Japanese, Indian and Singaporean navies yesterday in a formation exercise as the vessels sailed as a group to participate in this year’s Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in Hawaii. The BRP Davao Del Sur and BRP Andres Bonifacio, with a 700-man contingent, linked up with its counterpart foreign ships while passing through Johnson Atoll, a deserted 1,300-hectare atoll in the North Pacific Ocean located about 750 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii.
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Title:
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Philippines, China, Vietnam should sign a common fishing agreement
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Author:
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Far Eastern Agriculture
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Source:
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Far Eastern Agriculture
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Date:
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June 20, 2018
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Description:
- In order to fairly deal with a transparent fishing practice, Philippines, China and Vietnam are considering to signing a common fishing agreement on Scarborough Shoal, located between the Macclesfield Bank and Luzon island in the South China Sea
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Title:
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Taiwanese fishing boat saves 2 Filipinos adrift at sea
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Author:
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Emerson Lim, Kuo Chih-hsuan and S.C. Chang
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Source:
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Focus Taiwan
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Date:
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June 19, 2018
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Description:
- Two Filipino fishermen who were found drifting at sea were rescued by a Taiwanese fishing boat and later handed over to Filipino coast guard officers, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
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Title:
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China firm pulls out
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Author:
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Llanesca Panti
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Source:
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The Manila Times
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Date:
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June 19, 2018
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Description:
- A Chinese firm has withdrew from the Bangon Marawi Consortium — the panel composed of nine Filipino and Chinese companies that will undertake the rehabilitation work in the Islamic City of Marawi destroyed by the terrorist Maute group last year – because of legal impediments.
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Title:
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Philippines repositioning itself in ties with Taiwan: MECO official
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Author:
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Shih Hsiu-chuan
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Source:
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Focus Taiwan
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Date:
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June 17, 2018
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Description:
- The Philippines is positioning itself as Taiwan's "gateway" to Southeast Asia and hopes to spur two-way economic and educational exchanges with Taiwan, an official with the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei (MECO) said recently.
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Title:
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Senate panels to probe Duterte’s China policy
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Author:
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Paolo Romero
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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June 16, 2018
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Description:
- Two Senate committees will jointly hold a public hearing to determine how effective the country’s foreign policy is in the face of alarming developments in the West Philippine Sea, particularly China’s military buildup and its harassment of Filipino fishermen. No date has been set for the hearing to be led by the Senate committees on foreign relations and on national defense and security.
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Title:
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China puts missiles back on contested South China Sea island as United States pushes allies for bigger military presence in waters
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Author:
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Catherine Wong
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Source:
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South China Morning Post
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Date:
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June 12, 2018
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Description:
- Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat International (ISI) said images taken on Friday indicated that China had returned its surface-to-air missile systems on Woody Island, known in China as Yongxing Island, in the Paracels “exactly to the positions they were”.
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Title:
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Shifting US policy leaves Asian allies at sea
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Author:
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SIMON ROUGHNEEN
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Source:
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Nikkei Asian Review
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Date:
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June 13, 2018
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Description:
- SINGAPORE -- China has long bristled at the U.S. Navy’s “freedom of navigation operations” in the South China Sea, which challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the disputed waters. So when Zhao Xiaozhuo, a senior colonel in the Chinese army, found himself with a chance to complain about them directly to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently, he took it.