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A panel of global security experts concluded in 2019 that the rapid expansion of China’s Coast Guard gives Beijing the means to shift its sea expansion aims from aspirational to operational. In an article published by the US Naval Institute China’s Coast Guard Enforcing Its Blue Water Territorial Expansion John Grady quoted…
THE United States called China’s latest action in the South China Sea as a threat to peace and security in the region and an affront to international maritime norms, as it reminded Beijing of its existing defense treaty with the Philippines. The US Department of State made the statement in…
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The Philippines will maintain patrols in contested waters of the South China Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday, as he barred members of his cabinet from speaking publicly about maritime frictions between Manila and Beijing.
Also on Tuesday, the Philippine leader signed off on a law to renew a 25-year franchise for DITO Telecommunity Corp., a China-backed telecoms firm.
“Our vessels will continue to patrol relevant areas to firmly assert what is ours,” Duterte said in a statement, which presidential spokesman Harry Roque read out.
“The Philippine Navy, the Philippine Coast Guard, and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will be where they need to be.”
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Updated at 8:40 a.m. ET on 2021-05-19
The Philippines will maintain patrols in contested waters of the South China Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday, as he barred members of his cabinet from speaking publicly about maritime frictions between Manila and Beijing.
Also on Tuesday, the Philippine leader signed off on a law to renew a 25-year franchise for DITO Telecommunity Corp., a China-backed telecoms firm.
“Our vessels will continue to patrol relevant areas to firmly assert what is ours,” Duterte said in a statement, which presidential spokesman Harry Roque read out.
“The Philippine Navy, the Philippine Coast Guard, and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources will be where they need to be.”