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West Philippine Sea

West Philippine Sea news — maritime incidents, diplomatic protests, alliances, and security developments in disputed waters.

  1. Marcos seeks China ties reset

    Marcos seeks China ties reset

    The meeting came days after Chinese Coast Guard personnel allegedly boarded a Philippine civilian vessel near Ayungin Shoal

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  2. MARCO Rubio

    Rubio reaffirms U.S. defense pact

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to its Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines following renewed tensions with China in…

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  3. And why should China apologize?

    And why should China apologize?

    China benefits? Sure. But we depend on them more. That’s what really drives us crazy. Not the monkey. Reality.

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  4. Senator Robinhood Padilla

    Padilla issues statement on AI video row

    Sen. Robinhood Padilla’s office condemns a China Daily AI-generated video while warning against inflammatory rhetoric in West Philippine Sea messaging. The…

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  6. SENATOR Ping Lacson

    China paper crossed line

    Philippine officials and civic leaders condemned China Daily's AI-generated video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, calling it racist propaganda that undermines…

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  7. DEFENSE Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.

    Gov’t scores China over racist WPS hype

    The Philippines lodged a diplomatic protest after China Daily published racist AI-generated content depicting Filipinos, prompting strong condemnation from the…

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  8. AFP welcomes DoJ’s new maritime unit

    AFP welcomes DoJ’s new maritime unit

    The Armed Forces of the Philippines welcomed the Department of Justice’s new maritime law unit, saying it strengthens the country’s legal defense of the West…

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  9. Batanes amid Beijing’s lawfare

    Batanes amid Beijing’s lawfare

    Diplomacy without leverage is theater, but repeated, coordinated legal pressure is how smaller states have always fought larger ones without firing a shot.

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  10. COLORS aloft The Philippine Coast Guard contingent aboard BRP Gabriela Silang joins the nationwide flag-raising ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award while participating in RIMPAC 2026 in Hawaii.

    OSG: Arbitral ruling endures

    ‘The South China Sea Award endures not because it was rendered in The Hague, but because the Republic chose, and continues to choose, to live by it.’

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  11. THIS handout photo taken on 21 March last year and received from the Philippine Coast Guard and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources shows an aerial view of Filipino scientists inspecting Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in Spratly Islands. Inset, taken on 27 April this year shows Philippine Coast Guard and military personnel holding a Philippine flag during an inter-agency maritime operation in Sandy Cay 2. The Philippines on 28 April slammed an ‘irresponsible’ Chinese state media report claiming a disputed reef in the South China Sea was under Beijing’s control, saying the status quo was unchanged.

    Celebrating victory

    Every Filipino should know what we won, why we won, and why it matters. Because sovereignty is not defended only by ships and soldiers; it is also defended by…

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  12. 13 Phl allies reject China’s sea claims

    13 Phl allies reject China’s sea claims

    The Chinese Embassy in Manila maintained that the award ‘is nothing but a piece of waste paper that Beijing will neither accept nor recognize.’

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  13. ON Saturday, July 20, 2024, Alyansa Bantay Kapayapaan at Kaunlaran (ABKD) staged a Pre-SONA Peace Rally outside the Commission on Human Rights to unveil President Marcos Jr.’s 'WPS Score Card.' The group gave the president a 90 percent rating for his West Philippine Sea stance, while the Chinese Coast Guard received a failing mark of 70 percent for continued harassment of Filipino fishermen. ABKD cited ongoing incursions and blockades by Chinese forces within the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone, despite the 2016 arbitral ruling that affirmed Manila's maritime claims.

    Decade after, WPS fight continues

    As the Philippines marks the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Hague arbitral ruling, lawmakers renewed calls to defend the West Philippine Sea, uphold…

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  14. DEFENSE Secretary Gilbert Teodoro

    Teodoro: WPS must unite, not divide, nation

    Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. called on Filipinos to unite in defending the West Philippine Sea as the country marked the 10th anniversary of the…

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  16. Decade of defiance

    Decade of defiance

    Declaring 12 July National West Philippine Sea Victory Day would cost the government nothing and would lock the arbitral ruling into the nation’s civic memory,…

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