China’s defense minister warned yesterday of “limits” to Beijing’s restraint on the South China Sea and over the deployment of ballistic missiles in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fisherfolk join a fluvial parade in Candelaria, Zambales on May 11 to oppose the continued harassment by the China Coast Guard of Filipino fishermen in the West Philippine Sea.SINGAPORE —
The Philippines and the United States are longstanding treaty allies, and Manila is a key focus of Washington’s efforts to strengthen alliances and partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region, which has enraged Beijing. The deployment of “medium-range ballistic missiles” was “severely damaging regional security and stability,” Dong said.Dong also warned of “limits” to Beijing’s restraint on the South China Sea, following a series of confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels near disputed reefs.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, brushing off rival claims from other countries, including the Philippines, and ignoring an international ruling that its claims have no legal basis. “Illegal, coercive, aggressive and deceptive actions continue to violate our sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdictions,” Marcos said.In Beijing, Chinese state media said on Sunday that personnel on a Philippine ship pointed guns at China’s Coast Guard in disputed waters of the South China Sea last month.
More than $3 trillion of annual ship-borne commerce passes through the South China Sea, claimed in parts by the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 said China’s practically wholesale claims had no legal basis.Two senators said it is possible that Alice Guo's parents were both Chinese after all based on the investigation of one senator's...
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