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Published on: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
By: Inquirer, ABS CBN News
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FILE - This March 7, 2021 photo shows Chinese maritime militia ships moored in line formation at the Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea. (NTF-WPS via Philippine Coast Guard) (Philstar Global)
MANILA: Chinese vessels are still in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said on Monday.
Sobejano revealed that the vessels sighted consisted of Chinese militia, coast guards, navy, and fishermen.
The AFP, however, cannot release the exact number of the vessels, as per the National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea’s (NTF-WPS) orders.
Published on: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
By: Inquirer, ABS CBN News
Text Size:
FILE - This March 7, 2021 photo shows Chinese maritime militia ships moored in line formation at the Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea. (NTF-WPS via Philippine Coast Guard) (Philstar Global)
MANILA: Chinese vessels are still in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said on Monday.
Sobejano revealed that the vessels sighted consisted of Chinese militia, coast guards, navy, and fishermen.
The AFP, however, cannot release the exact number of the vessels, as per the National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea’s (NTF-WPS) orders.
Published May 7, 2021, 3:53 PM
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. on Friday spoke over the phone with United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John F. Kerry to discuss major initiatives to address the climate crisis.
Foreign Affairs Sec. Teodoro Locsin, Jr. (left) and United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John F. Kerry (right). (DFA)
In a statement issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs, it said Locsin and Kerry both recognized that climate change is one of the key areas where the Philippines and the United States can cooperate more closely to strengthen their bilateral relations and their alliance.
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Drilon says PHL must continue with megaphone diplomacy to match China s gunboat diplomacy
Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon on Wednesday said the Philippine should continue to exert pressure on China and bring to the forefront China s illegal activities in the West Philippines Sea through megaphone diplomacy , saying it might be the only recourse left for the Philippines to match the economic giant s gunboat diplomacy . I would rather that we continue with the megaphone diplomacy because of the gunboat diplomacy of China, Drilon said in an interview with ANC s Headstart. We must continue to expose these illegal acts of China. That is why megaphone diplomacy, as the Chinese foreign minister would call it, is maybe the appropriate course that we have today so that we can keep China on its toes insofar as the world forum is concerned, Drilon stressed.