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Tag: EDCA

  • VERAFIED: U.S. DID NOT donate 1,000 military tanks to the Philippines
    Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: U.S. DID NOT donate 1,000 military tanks to the Philippines

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 23, 2023 12:17 PM

    A YouTube video falsely passed off old clips of armored fighting vehicles to claim that the United States (U.S.) gave “for free” 1,000 military tanks to the Philippines. The U.S. has made no such donation.

    EDCA, military tanks

  • Categories Commentary Editor's Pick

    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.

    Ayungin Shoal, BRP Sierra Madre, EDCA

  • Chinese Coast Guard ship guarding Scarborough Shoal. Photo courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    ​ Paving the way for China’s occupation of Scarborough Shoal?

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 01, 2020 5:23 AM

    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.

    EDCA, Mutual Defense Treaty, Scarborough shoal, visiting forces agreement

  • Categories Top Stories

    EDCA may have spurred China’s expansion in SCS

    Jan 15, 2016 7:07 PM

                           BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN their ecstasy over the Supreme Court decision declaring the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement constitutional and need not be ratified by the Senate, government officials are telling the Filipino people that the country is now in a better position to […]

    EDCA

  • Categories Top Stories

    Opposition to EDCA goes to SC today

    May 26, 2014 6:00 AM

      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS TODAY, various individuals and groups, appalled by the mockery of the Constitution and complete disregard of the historic Senate vote ending the U.S. bases era on Sept. 16, 1991 by the Aquino government, are filing with the Supreme Court today a petition to declare the recently-signed PH-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation […]

    EDCA

  • Categories Top Stories

    EDCA: a mockery of the Constitution

    May 07, 2014 7:19 PM

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN the Facebook wall of Dennis Carcia, musician, advertising executive, painter and Abante columnist, there’s a picture of Obama signaling something with two fingers. Dennis captioned it: “EDCA:I can summarize the agreement in two words- NO RENTAL. “ The post elicited a comment from Noy Dy-Liacco: “I can do it in […]

    EDCA

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