Streaming giant Netflix has asked the Philippine government to reconsider its order to remove two episodes of the political drama “Pine Gap,” which showed a map asserting China’s sweeping claim over the South China Sea.
Netflix has removed two episodes of an Australian spy show from its streaming service in the Philippines after Manila objected to scenes showing a map with Beijing’s claims to the disputed South China Sea.
President Rodrigo Duterte thanked the Japanese government for supporting a rules-based approach in addressing maritime disputes in the South China Sea.
The 2016 ruling by a United Nations-backed court that invalidated China’s claims to the South China Sea (SCS) “singles out no one,” President Rodrigo Duterte said during the 24th ASEAN-China Summit.
No country can diminish the 2016 arbitral award that shot down China’s expansive claim over the South China Sea, President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday.
Germany dispatched a frigate to the Indo-Pacific region Monday for the first time in almost 20 years, a move that could put strain on Berlin’s delicate relationship with Beijing.
MANILA – Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday said he does not see any hostilities breaking out in the South China Sea (SCS) despite intensified exercises between the Philippines and the United States and its partners in the region.
The Chinese Embassy in Manila on Friday night criticized the United States-based firm Simularity for “discrediting” Beijing over its report that called on Chinese ships to stop dumping human waste in the Spratlys.
Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio threatened to “go around the country and denounce” former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay if he insisted on excluding Itu Aba in the arbitration case filed by the Philippines against China over the South China Sea, he revealed Thursday (July 8).
MANILA – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China have agreed to “exercise restraint” in the disputed South China Sea and to avoid activities that would provoke tensions in the region.
