“The seven military outposts of China across West Philippine Sea has put crosshairs on its various ecosystems and fishing grounds.”
Peace diplomacy means growing reefs, not rockets on Spratlys – green groups tell China
Tags: Spratlys
Two issues, two disappointments
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Two issues present major challenges to the Aquino administration, which is now on the second half of its term. The first issue involves 97 mayors, five senators and 23 representatives of the Lower House, as of the last count. The P10 billion ($232 million) pork barrel scam could have provided the…
Pathetic wishful thinking
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis I cringe whenever I hear the Aquino administration justifying its declaration that it would seek expanded access of foreign military troops, specifically that of the US and Japan, to the country’s military bases, ports, and other facilities. “At this point, we cannot stand alone. We need to form alliances. If we…
Sending UN peacekeeping forces to Spratlys dangerous – fisherfolk group
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Pambansang Lakas ng Mamamalakayang Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) has issued a demand that the Benigno Aquino III administration stop its plans to ask the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force and help keep China in check in relation to the conflict involving territorial rights over the West…
Claims that US will aid Philippines against China just ‘fantasy’
By MARYA SALAMAT
Relying on US as treaty “partner” has not helped the Philippines to develop its own military capability; it is also not expected to be of help in engaging China militarily.
Sidebar: Opposition mounts as US increases military aid, sends nuclear submarine to Subic
Bayan Muna warns China’s increasing incursions caused by JMSU agreement
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The progressive party-list Bayan Muna wants the Supreme Court to declare the Philippines’ involvement in the Joint Maritime Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) project and other joint ventures on Philippines waters with China as unconstitutional. Three weeks ago, Chinese fishermen were discovered poaching in the Scarborough Shoal or the Bajo de…
Thorny sovereignty issue
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld It is quite easy for the Aquino government to arouse the people’s anger at China bullying in the South China Sea considering what appear to be clear encroachments on Philippine territorial waters and its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.…
On Philippine sovereignty, US & China
In the interest of presenting a different and progressive perspective, Bulatlat is publishing in full the reply of Prof. Jose Maria Sison of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle on the questions being raised by Renato Reyes of Bayan regarding this contentious issue.
Progressives slam Aquino’s mendicancy, sellout to US imperial interests
By MARYA SALAMAT
Critics ask why the Philippine government is downgrading itself into a US pawn and a beggar for used, obsolete military hardware of the US government.
US reassurances of support in Spratly’s conflict illusory
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — Invoking the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) between the Philippines and the US is just “a useless crutch” the Philippines cannot rely on based on US jurisprudence, Bayan Muna’s Satur Ocampo said in a forum held at the University of the Philippines recently, summarizing the discussion of a panel of…
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Independent foreign policy
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The territorial dispute over the resource-rich and strategically-located Spratlys islands, highlighted by alleged recent incursions and other aggressive actions of China into areas also claimed by the Philippines and Vietnam, underscores the importance of an independent and non-aligned foreign policy for small and weak nations like the Philippines. This…