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The United States finally made good an earlier promise to test the territorial claim of China over the whole of the South China Sea by sending the USS Lassen, a guided missile destroyer, to within 12 nautical miles of one of the man-made islands that China has been building in the area.

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China is celebrating the second year since the establishment of Sansha, a settlement based in disputed Woody (Yongxing) Island and designated as a "city" to administer the Philippine-claimed Spratly (Kalayaan) Islands.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-25 10:31:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140625/sansha-city-mayor-spratlys.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1335133 [Title] => China adding school to outpost in disputed waters [Summary] =>

China is building a school on a remote island in the South China Sea to serve the children of military personnel and others, expanding the rugged outpost it created two years ago to strengthen claims to disputed waters and islands.

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That weekend exchange of comments between US and Chinese security officials tells us that Beijing is not about to let anyone or anything stand in the way of doing whatever it wants to do in any place that it claims as its territory.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1305169 [Title] => When to take offense [Summary] =>

Sometimes I cannot understand what Filipinos consider important. When China blasted Filipino fishermen with water cannons in Philippine waters, most official reactions came naturally from the Philippine government and from mainstream media opinion makers.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1288601 [Title] => Why Noynoy will never apologize [Summary] =>

China can keep demanding for an apology from Noynoy Aquino until the century egg turns white, but there is no way the Philippine president is ever going to issue one, not even if he wanted to.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1270593 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Talk is cheap [Summary] =>

The sound byte was great -- that of US Secretary of State John Kerry saying, during his visit to the Philippines, that the United States does not recognize the air defense identification zone China unilaterally declared over the East China Sea, and which it may similarly declare over the South China Sea.

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The power and influence of the United States in policing the world is slowly slipping. But that is not as frightening as the fact that the United States could be relinquishing that power and influence to China, and not to police the world but to bully it.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img703/6239/iv8.gif ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 820454 [Title] => Fiasco [Summary] =>

We might have lost Scarborough Shoal last Tuesday, the day the President ordered the pullout of Filipino ships from the contested territory.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 524940 [Title] => Free trade [Summary] =>

The APEC summit held in Singapore last week might not have found enough of a consensus to set clear targets for carbon emissions over the foreseeable future.

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                    [Title] => The charade begins
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The United States finally made good an earlier promise to test the territorial claim of China over the whole of the South China Sea by sending the USS Lassen, a guided missile destroyer, to within 12 nautical miles of one of the man-made islands that China has been building in the area.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-27 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1338850 [Title] => China celebrating Spratlys' 2nd anniversary as part of new 'city' [Summary] =>

China is celebrating the second year since the establishment of Sansha, a settlement based in disputed Woody (Yongxing) Island and designated as a "city" to administer the Philippine-claimed Spratly (Kalayaan) Islands.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-25 10:31:34 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140625/sansha-city-mayor-spratlys.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1335133 [Title] => China adding school to outpost in disputed waters [Summary] =>

China is building a school on a remote island in the South China Sea to serve the children of military personnel and others, expanding the rugged outpost it created two years ago to strengthen claims to disputed waters and islands.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-15 17:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1330801 [Title] => Losing friends [Summary] =>

That weekend exchange of comments between US and Chinese security officials tells us that Beijing is not about to let anyone or anything stand in the way of doing whatever it wants to do in any place that it claims as its territory.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1305169 [Title] => When to take offense [Summary] =>

Sometimes I cannot understand what Filipinos consider important. When China blasted Filipino fishermen with water cannons in Philippine waters, most official reactions came naturally from the Philippine government and from mainstream media opinion makers.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1288601 [Title] => Why Noynoy will never apologize [Summary] =>

China can keep demanding for an apology from Noynoy Aquino until the century egg turns white, but there is no way the Philippine president is ever going to issue one, not even if he wanted to.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1270593 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Talk is cheap [Summary] =>

The sound byte was great -- that of US Secretary of State John Kerry saying, during his visit to the Philippines, that the United States does not recognize the air defense identification zone China unilaterally declared over the East China Sea, and which it may similarly declare over the South China Sea.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img560/623/aju.gif ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1266353 [Title] => EDITORIAL -The writing on the wall [Summary] =>

The power and influence of the United States in policing the world is slowly slipping. But that is not as frightening as the fact that the United States could be relinquishing that power and influence to China, and not to police the world but to bully it.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img703/6239/iv8.gif ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 820454 [Title] => Fiasco [Summary] =>

We might have lost Scarborough Shoal last Tuesday, the day the President ordered the pullout of Filipino ships from the contested territory.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 524940 [Title] => Free trade [Summary] =>

The APEC summit held in Singapore last week might not have found enough of a consensus to set clear targets for carbon emissions over the foreseeable future.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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