South China Sea

Philippines, South Korea enhance defence cooperation, upgrades ties to tactical partnership

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr settled on Monday to boost defence cooperation as their nations raised ties to a strategic collaboration in the middle of growing security obstacles in the area. The 2 leaders talked about a series of problems including tensions in the South China Sea and on the Korean peninsula throughout talks at the Philippine governmental palace where they also signed arrangements on coastguard cooperation and nuclear energy. President Marcos and I opened a brand-new chapter of our collaboration by raising our relationship to a tactical partnership, said Yoon, who is
Pollution

China says no clinical, factual basis for Philippines' damage claims at Sabina Shoal
Philippines prompts China to enable analysis of challenged South China Sea shoal

The Philippines challenged China on Monday to open Scarborough Shoal to global analysis after it accused Beijing of ruining the shoal's. marine environment. Maritime tension has been increasing in the South China Sea. in between Manila and Beijing, as the Philippines has actually implicated China. of using water cannon and blocking manoeuvres through disputed. shoals and reefs. Control of the Scarborough Shoal, taken by China in 2012,. figured in the Philippines case at a Hague arbitration tribunal,. which ruled in 2016 that Beijing's claim to 90% of the South. China Sea had no basis in international law. We are alarmed
Fossil Fuels

Philippines' PXP Energy eyes petroleum obstructs in non-disputed locations
Official of the Philippine Navy calls China's coast guard a "band" of barbarians

A senior navy official stated on Thursday that China's coastguard personnel behaved like "a band of barbarians" this week during a Philippine supply mission to a disputed shoal in South China Sea, which resulted in injuries and damages to vessels. A Philippine sailor was seriously injured after what the Philippine military called "intentional high speed ramming by the Chinese Coast Guard" in an attempt to disrupt a supply mission for troops on Second Thomas Shoal. China's Coast Guard personnel - who Philippine military officials claimed were carrying knives and spears - looted firearms from Philippine boats and "deliberately punctured them".
China

Official of the Philippine Navy calls China's coast guard a "band" of barbarians

A senior navy official stated on Thursday that China's coastguard personnel behaved like "a band of barbarians" this week during a Philippine supply mission to a disputed shoal in South China Sea, which resulted in injuries and damages to vessels. A Philippine sailor was seriously injured after what the Philippine military called "intentional high speed ramming by the Chinese Coast Guard" in an attempt to disrupt a supply mission for troops on Second Thomas Shoal. China's Coast Guard personnel - who Philippine military officials claimed were carrying knives and spears - looted firearms from Philippine boats and "deliberately punctured them".
Philippines' more assertive hand in dispute over South China Sea tests Beijing

Fossil Fuels

Experts warn that a Trump return could reignite US-Vietnam tensions.

Analysts warn that Vietnam's large surplus in trade with the United States could reignite tensions if Donald Trump were to win a second term as president. This is because exports of solar cells and other sensitive electrical products are booming. The Super Tuesday results confirmed that the November U.S. election will pit incumbent Joe Biden up against Donald Trump, who was more lenient towards trade imbalances in his first term as president than Biden. Data from the United States show that the Southeast Asian manufacturing hub had a trade surplus of $104 billion with Washington last year. This was only

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