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China Sends Coast Guard Ship to Scarborough Shoal

China has actually released a patrol vessel from its Coast Guard to the Scarborough Shoal, the current salvo in its continual pressure campaign versus Philippine-claimed features in the challenged South China Sea, ship-tracking information shows. The China Coast Guard (CCG) ship 3302 was at Scarborough Shoal since Wednesday, Radio Free Asia can verify. It left […]

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Manila Criticizes Beijing Over Sinking of Vietnamese Boat in South China Sea

The Philippines revealed “deep concern” Wednesday over a Chinese coast guard ship’s supposed sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat in the challenged South China Sea recently, as Manila signed up with Hanoi and Washington in slamming Beijing over the occurrence. The Philippine foreign office provided what it called a “statement of solidarity” with Hanoi. The […]

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Threat to Terminate US-Philippine Pact Resonates Around Southeast Asia

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to terminate a lynchpin military pact with long time treaty ally the United States– if executed– might not just shake Manila’s defense policy however effect the fragile balance in ties in between Southeast Asia and U.S. and China, experts state. The Going To Forces Contract (VFA) that Duterte strategies to […]

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