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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Duterte na nakapangingisda pa rin ang mga Filipino sa West Philippine Sea nangangailangan ng konteksto

By VERA Files | Oct 28, 2023 11:38 AM

Sabi ni dating pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, patuloy na nakapangingisda ang mga Filipino sa West Philippine Sea dahil sa awa ni Chinese President Xi Jinping. Nangangailangan ito ng konteksto. Alamin natin sa mga mangingisda sa Zambales kung ano nga ba ang sitwasyon nila, dito sa VERA Files Fact Check: Have you seen any dubious claims, photos, […]

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War of maps in the South China Sea

By Romel Regalado Bagares* | Oct 05, 2023 10:42 AM

“Making wars means making maps,” the Thai scholar Thongchai Winichakul wrote in his landmark Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (1994).

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On board the BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal: A journalist’s first-hand account

By Charmaine Deogracias | Sep 24, 2023 8:11 PM

True to a Biblical reference on the wise man who built his house on a rock, BRP Sierra Madre stands defiantly on Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) even as one of Asia Pacific’s top military superpowers has been trying to have it removed for almost 30 years now.

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Carpio urges PH to invite China, Vietnam and Malaysia to bring the Spratlys territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice

By Rhoanne De Guzman | Sep 23, 2023 4:57 PM

As the South Chinese Sea dispute continues to heat up, former associate justice Antonio Carpio has recommended that the Philippines submit the conflicting claims in the Spratly Islands to voluntary arbitration in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos contradicts DFA, NTF-WPS on Ayungin Shoal

By VERA Files | Aug 08, 2023 6:44 PM

By saying that the conflicting maritime claims of the Philippines and China over Ayungin Shoal is a “gray area,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. contradicted the assertions of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) that the 2016 arbitral court decision had declared the area as […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: DFA Usec makes false remark about SC decision on South China Sea exploration deal

By VERA Files | Jun 03, 2023 5:23 PM

Retired associate justice Antonio Carpio said the “national territory” clause is in Article I of the Constitution, while “the SC based its decision on the JMSU case on Section 2 of Article XII – these are two different articles in the Constitution.”

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Can the U.S. invoke MDT if its vessel is attacked while aiding Taiwan vs China?

By Ellen Tordesillas | May 11, 2023 10:43 PM

Can the U.S. invoke MDT if its vessel is attacked while aiding Taiwan vs China?
Retired Justice Antonio Carpio: No

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China takes the offensive

By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Apr 18, 2023 8:28 AM

It was short and clear. And combative.

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China -outlaws of the sea

By Antonio J. Montalvan III | Feb 18, 2023 7:25 PM

On October 13, 1995, state parties meeting in Vienna, Austria agreed on what is known as the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons. Since it was a treaty and which by United Nations procedure meant that each country would deposit its individual country consent at the UN headquarters in New York, the new protocol entered into force on July 30, 1998. As of 2018, 109 countries have deposited their consent.

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Will the MDT be operationalized in Ayungin Shoal clash?

By Ellen Tordesillas | Feb 15, 2023 11:48 PM

The assurance of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Feb. 2 that the Mutual Defense Treaty is applicable on the West Philippine Sea will be tested in Ayungin Shoal as Chinese ships become more determined to block any more attempts by the Philippine Navy to repair the dilapidated BRP Sierra Madre, which is holding out as a block to China’s expansionism in the South China Sea.

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