Category: Philippines-China Relations
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SC Ruling on JMSU Legislates Dangerous Precedence Based on Fiction
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Make no mistake about it, I am making this statement with all due respects to the Supreme Court. But hello IMHO, the recent ruling of the Supreme Court on the Joint Memorandum on Seismic Understanding actually legislates a dangerous precedence. It is wrong, superfluous and irrelevant. It is wrong because the…
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How US Agents Attempt to Sabotage Our 60-40 Oil Deal with China
by Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan When former Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Teddy Boy Locsin announced that China had backed out of the Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to a joint exploration of the gas and oil reserves at Reed Bank or Recto Reef, he was actually lying. This was easily debunked by China’s Foreign…
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Sherman’s visit tanks and fails to raise hope of revitalizing Philippine-US ties
A much-publicized visit of the US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to Asia is underway as part of the ongoing series of US Indo-Pacific Strategy to keep its presence in the region alive after the Trump era withdrawal to focus on “America First” which faltered. Joe Biden on his second year as president of…
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PHL-China Ties: Ever Stronger at 47
by Herman Tiu Laurel – Asian Century Journal – June 3, 2022 President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, Sr. (FEM) forty-seven years ago travelled to China to meet with Chairman Mao Zedong on June 8, 1975 and subsequently signed the joint communique with Premier Chou Enlai on June 9 the following day establishing formal diplomatic ties between…
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Win-win Cooperation Manifesting in Bridges Of Amity And Prosperity
In the swirl of war and dire economic news coming out of eastern Europe some of us almost missed the significance of this day, April 5, 2022. On this day the Binondo-Intramuros Bridge project costing P5.5-billion and serve 30,000 motorists daily will be opened to use to relieve the congested City of Manila’s Chinatown Central…