by Lucio Blanco Pitlo III/ November 15, 2019/ Originally Posted at the Diplomat Growing aid, trade, and diplomatic outreach and rumored interest in securing bases heighten worries about China’s expanding footprint in the Pacific. But while Pacific island states are not naïve to growing great power competition, they do not necessarily share the same level of [...]
APPFI Secretariat, 01 July 2019 As the Philippines entered midterm election frenzy, China emerged as an important issue with the opposition using the Duterte administration's China policy against his allies. Though this did not translate to electoral victory for the opposition, Duterte's friendly treatment of China was further put to the test in the middle of June [...]
by Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, 15 August 2019, Originally Posted at SCMP “There is a time for everything. A time to negotiate and a time to quarrel with your enemy … a time to antagonise and a time to make peace and a time to go to war.” This telling rendition of the Bible verse Ecclesiastes [...]
By: Frances Mangosing - Reporter / @FMangosingINQ / INQUIRER.net / 08:35 AM July 15, 201 MANILA, Philippines — Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Sunday responded to President Rodrigo Duterte’s challenge to propose a plan to enforce the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in favor of the Philippines in its maritime dispute with China in the South China [...]
BY GREGORY POLING / Originally Posted at Foreign Policy| JUNE 25, 2019, 9:47 AM The Spratly Islands, occupied by five different claimants, are the most hotly contested part of the South China Sea. Thanks to the harbors and supporting infrastructure Beijing constructed on its outposts there over the last five years, most vessels operating around the Spratlys are Chinese. [...]
