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The Philippine government has no promise of removing the BRP Sierra Madre at the Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea, a Palace officias said on Wednesday.

And congress. francis suarez was caught off guard today during an interview with hugh hewitt. the miami mayor was stumped when asked about the plight of ethnic muslims in china known as the uighurs. >> will you be talking about the uighurs in your campaign? >> the what? >> the uighurs. >> what is a uighur. >> we will come back to that. the uighurs. you really need to know about the uighurs. >> i will search. i am a fast learner. >> china has taken criticism of its treatment of the uighurs in the...

>> the trade gap with china, those are significant numbers. it is massive. you look at annual gdp growth, compare the two countries and look at the growth of china. >> what the people that talk about stabilizing want to do, they want to stabilize a trajectory in which we are going to lose this competition and the life of our children and the system that the united states leaves around the world is threatened by that. the trade numbers are a small fraction of it. how much money do they get in val...

Newly-appointed Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilbert Teodor Jr. on Wednesday said other countries should not "question" the Philippines' expansion of capabilities in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). He made the statement when asked about his stand on the issue of China’s aggression in the WPS.

>> in the middle of this, we still have an iran that faces very crippling economic sanctions because the u.s. by pulling out of the iran deal imposed those secondary sanctions. what is happening? is iran on the brink? how do you see what its doing? >> no, fareed. iran is facing one of the most severe economic crisis in the past 40 years, literally. not to mention the social tension, the social protests inside iran. so in a way the iranian economy is on the verge of collapse in terms of inflation...

There is a shift of foreign policy in the past two years. i think the normalization revelations between sawed rabe wra a ia and iran is significant and what you have now is the saudis are trying to exit yemen. yemen has been really very costly for saudi arabia, both financially and reputation. theyre trying to re-live in peace with iraq. why? because they have come to realize they cannot really rely on the united states, that they believe that the united states is retrenching and has been retren...

Post-american middle east? >> i think if you ask me, i would say its really -- its what leaders in the region and they look at the world and say china is the future and its the chinese sanction, and the next 10, 20, 30 years it will be chinas to have, just to give you an example for your viewers. ch china is the biggest trade partner. china will be the greatest trade partners of almost every single middle eastern state in the next ten or 20 years. so if you follow the trail of money and the saud...

"With the concerted efforts of regional countries, the situation in the South China Sea has maintained overall stability. The US-Philippines defense guidelines is a bilateral arrangement," Mao said. "China firmly opposes any country’s move to meddle in the South China Sea issue to harm China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests by citing the guidelines," she added.

On his way to have coffee with US Vice President Kamala Harris and US Second Gentleman Dough Emhoff, a reporter asked Marcos how concerned he was “with the continued provocation made by China” in the region.   "As concerned as you could possibly be,” Marcos replied. “It is one of the major issues that we have to face back home."

"Exchange and cooperation between relevant countries should not target any third party and should be conducive to regional peace and stability," Wang said at a press conference. "The US-Philippines military cooperation must not interfere in South China Sea disputes, still less harm China’s territorial sovereignty, maritime rights and interests and security interests," he added.