South China Sea NewsWire
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Diplomacy
Philippines wants to talk with China on South China Sea, foreign minister says
25 June, 2024
The Philippines is working hard to bring China back to the table for talks to resolve differences in the South China Sea, Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo said on Tuesday.
Security
PLA tests its landing ships amid tension with Philippines over islands
24 June, 2024
The People’s Liberation Army has conducted drills in the South China Sea featuring landing ships amid tensions over disputed islands with the Philippines.
Diplomacy
Philippines Accuses China of Using ‘Illegal Force’ to Deliberately Disrupt Resupply Mission
24 June, 2024
The Philippines’ defence chief said China used “aggressive and illegal force” to disrupt a resupply mission in the South China Sea and said last week’s maritime incident, which injured a sailor, was neither a misunderstanding nor an accident.
Security
Crisis Deepens in the South China Sea
23 June, 2024
When Chinese soldiers on June 17 boarded a Philippine vessel heading to Ayungin Shoal in the Spratly Islands to replenish food and medicine to soldiers manning the derelict warship Sierra Madre, which remains beached there, it sent a shudder across the world, heightening the specter of war. Washington condemned China over what the Philippines called an “intentional high-speed ramming” by the Chinese Coast Guard, with several Filipino sailors injured in the confrontation, and with business interests in Manila beginning to grow acutely skittish.
Diplomacy
Will China make the Philippines ‘pay a price’ for its latest South China Sea claim?
22 June, 2024
A bid by the Philippines to have the United Nations formally recognise the extent of its continental seabed in parts of the disputed South China Sea could encourage similar claims from rival claimant states, according to observers.
Diplomacy
U.S. East Asia envoy says South China Sea situation deeply concerning
22 June, 2024
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink on Saturday said the situation in the South China Sea is deeply concerning, and said China’s recent actions in the disputed waterway were “deeply destabilising”.
Security
Philippines secretly reinforces ship at centre of South China Sea dispute
20 June, 2024
The Philippines has secretly reinforced a dilapidated warship marooned on a South China Sea reef that is central to an increasingly dangerous dispute with Beijing, according to six people familiar with the operation.
Diplomacy
Blinken says China’s actions in South China Sea hinder regional peace and stability
20 June, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday talked by phone with Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo about China’s actions in the South China Sea, which Manila and Washington have called escalatory.
Diplomacy
Philippines demands China return rifles and pay for boat damage after hostilities in disputed sea
19 June, 2024
The Philippine military chief demanded Wednesday that China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea.
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