Hours before the President's SONA declaration, Filipino and Chinese diplomats simultaneously announced the arrangement they agreed on for the rotation and resupply (RORE) to the Philippine Marines stationed at BRP Sierra Made on Ayungin Shoal (international name: Second Thomas Shoal and Chinese name: Ren’ai Jiao).
In Sacred Shores, Dengcoy Miel reflects on the idea of ownership, sovereignty, and territory amidst Filipinos’ seeming apathy to the issue.
Recto Bank is within the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone, but is also claimed by China.
Marcos made 15 foreign trips to 11 countries during his second year in office and received an increased travel fund of P1.4 billion in the 2024 national budget.
Henry Bensurto, Jr. is the man who worked tirelessly for the Philippines' victory over China in the West Philippine Sea dispute.
Snippets from a military exercise in Poland were misleadingly passed off as the United States forces in the West Philippine Sea amid rising tensions with China.
Unlike the claim of China and former president Rodrigo Duterte, the 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea is not “just a piece of paper.”
The Philippines outmaneuvered China on the West Philippine Sea dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague by refusing to play the Asian superpower’s game.
A misleading FB reel claims that a China Coast Guard ship has recently arrived in the Philippines for a goodwill visit.
The biggest impact of the ruling, Bensurto reminded, is that "we were able to prove China wrong" at a sound and legal tribunal.
