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Dec 11, 2016

Defense chief: No US freedom of navigation patrols from PH shores

In a departure from the previous administration’s support of the United States freedom of navigation activities in the South China Sea, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Thursday, the Philippines will not allow the use of former American military bases – Clark and Subic – for FON patrols of the United States Armed Forces.

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Oct 30, 2015

Why Pres. Aquino held back comments on U.S. warship foray into Subi Reef

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS In President Aquino’s  talk with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines last Tuesday, about a third of the questions were about the challenge of the  United States to  China’s  claim of sovereignty on the surrounding waters of its artificially-created islands  in Spratlys in the South China Sea, which

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