Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddyboy Locsin, Jr. has contradicted previous statements of President Rodrigo Duterte and his predecessor, now House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, on the possibility of war with China over disputed territories in the South China Sea -- the latest in the series of government officials’ evolving and conflicting pronouncements on the issue.
Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has dismissed concerns about the Philippines’ mounting loans from China, saying they are not a “debt trap.”
Ang Taiwan -- hindi China – ay opisyal na tinatawag na Republic of China (ROC).
Taiwan, not China, is officially called the Republic of China (ROC).
An online post claiming that the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China have agreed on a 60-40 profit-sharing scheme on their joint oil exploration in disputed maritime areas is misleading.
Duterte blurted out something that he never said before: “ So it's very clear that the gambit really is the China Sea.”
Ang Pilipinas ay hindi maaaring "nalalapit ang distansya" sa mga armas nuclear ng China simula noong 1950s dahil ang China ay walang nuclear weapons noon.
China started exploring but did not own nuclear weapons back in the 1950s.
Newly-installed Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said he has been in all the bilateral meetings between President Duterte and China’s President Xi Jinping and he has not witnessed any threat of war uttered by the Chinese President.
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio reminded Sunday President Duterte of his “constitutional duty” to the Filipino people to defend the country’s national territory and suggested to him four ways he can do it as regards the reported China’s plans to set up an environmental monitoring station in Scarborough Shoal.
