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Justice Carpio and Chinese Deputy Chief of Mission Zhou Zhiyong

Fact checking the claim of the Chinese Embassy

By Justice Antonio T. Carpio (Ret.) | Aug 16, 2023 5:08 PM

On August 15, 2023, Chinese Deputy Chief of Mission Zhou Zhiyong claimed during a news conference at the Kamuning Pandesal Forum in Quezon City that the Potsdam Declaration and the Cairo Declaration stated that “all territories Japan has seized from the Chinese, including those of Nansha Islands and Xisha Islands, shall be restored to China.” Retired Associate Justice Antonio Carpio: This claim is false.

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FACT CHECK South China Sea: Waters of Contention

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Online post claiming Aquino admin sold Spratlys to China FALSE

By VERA FILES | Nov 06, 2018 8:53 PM

A netizen’s online post last Oct. 28 claiming that the administration of former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III sold the Spratly Islands to China is false and misleading.

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Editor's Pick News South China Sea: Waters of Contention

AFP probers say US, not China, put concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS | Oct 25, 2013 7:40 AM

THE concrete blocks in Bajo de Masinloc, which Philippine defense and military officials last month accused China of putting there, may have actually been placed by the United States Navy decades ago, military sources said. A military investigation found that the concrete slabs were covered by algae, an indication that they had been in the area […]

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Editor's Pick News South China Sea: Waters of Contention

PH, China in battle of photos on Scarborough shoal

Sep 23, 2013 9:13 AM

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS Concrete blocks or just rocks and corals? That is the latest question troubling the strained relationship between the Philippines and China over the disputed Bajo de Masinloc, also known as Scarborough Shoal, off the South China Sea. This time, though, the dispute is playing out through photographs, more than words. A week […]

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Editor's Pick South China Sea: Waters of Contention

PH questions China’s 9-dash line map before UN court

Jan 22, 2013 12:41 PM

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS

THE Philippine government decided Tuesday to ask the United Nations arbitration tribunal to declare as illegal China’s nine-dash line map that covers a large part of country’s territory in the South China Sea including the disputed Spratlys group of islands and Bajo de Masinloc.

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Editor's Pick News South China Sea: Waters of Contention

Chinese ‘occupation’ of Bajo de Masinloc could reduce PH territorial waters by 38 percent

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS | Jan 20, 2013 3:48 PM

(First of two parts) THE Philippines is at a loss over China’s declaration its ships will stay permanently in Bajo de Masinloc, a declaration some experts say could lead to the Philippines losing 38 percent of its territorial waters. Bajo de Masinloc, a triangular-shaped coral reef formation that has several rocks encircling a lagoon, is […]

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Editor's Pick News South China Sea: Waters of Contention

Six RP-occupied islands covered in controversial Spratlys deals

By Yvonne T. Chua and Ellen Tordesillas | Mar 09, 2008 4:00 PM

SIX islands occupied by the Philippines in the disputed Spratly Islands Groups are covered by two controversial joint seismic monitoring agreements among the Philippines, China and Vietnam that have come under fire for purportedly “sacrificing” Philippine interests in exchange for huge loans from Beijing.

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