Sa loob lamang ng dalawang araw, naiba ang posisyon ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. tungkol sa pagpasa ng bagong coast guard law ng China — na pinapayagan nitong paputukan ang mga banyagang sasakyang pandagat sa teritoryo na inangkin ng China. Mula sa "wala tayong pakialam," tinawag niya itong isang “verbal na banta ng giyera" sa mga lalabag dito.
In just two days, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. went from saying the passage of China’s new coast guard law — which allows it to fire on foreign vessels in China-claimed maritime areas — was “none of our business,” to calling it a “verbal threat of war” to those who will violate it.
Kinontra ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang kanyang top diplomat nang pinanindigan niya ang makasaysayang tagumpay ng Pilipinas sa arbitration laban sa China sa pinagtatalunan sa South China Sea sa kanyang kauna-unahang pagsasalita sa United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) noong Set. 22.
President Rodrigo Duterte contradicted his top diplomat when he affirmed the Philippines’ historic arbitral victory against China on the South China Sea dispute during his debut appearance at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) on Sept. 22.
There are unmistakable signs that Vietnam may have already reached the point of no return in its maritime dispute with China.
Will China have its cake and eat it too at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)?
Several options are available to the government to assert its rights over the West Philippine Sea and fortify the arbitral tribunal’s 2016 ruling on the territorial dispute, but the Duterte administration has chosen to not do anything because it doesn’t want to displease China, retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio said in an online forum.
Minaliit ni Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana ang insidente noong Peb. 17 kung saan nag umang ng radar gun ang isang Chinese warship sa isang Philippine navy ship na nasa loob karagatan ng Pilipinas, na sumasalungat sa naunang pahayag ng militar.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has downplayed the Feb. 17 incident in which a Chinese warship aimed a radar gun on a Philippine navy ship within Philippine waters, contradicting an earlier statement of the military.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has told reporters that the Senate will be asking the Supreme Court Monday to rule on whether the president can unilaterally abrogate a treaty without the concurrence of the Senate that ratified the pact.
