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  • SCS: Old battleground, new twist: Old battleground, new twist

    03/16/2024 9:28:24 PM PDT · by Jyotishi · 3 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Sunday, March 17, 2024 | Makhan Saikia
    The South China Sea has once again become a focal point of international attention following sudden clashes between coast guard vessels of the Philippines and China. As tensions rise, the involvement of global powers like the US and Japan adds further complexity to the situation, potentially pushing more nations to align against Beijing. Amid these escalating tensions, it becomes imperative for China to reconsider its assertive stance and respect the existing global order to avoid further international backlash The South China Sea (SCS) has once again come into focus following sudden skirmishes between the coast guard vessels of the Philippines...
  • Four Filipinos injured in China, Philippine S China Sea standoff

    03/05/2024 1:33:21 PM PST · by ifinnegan · 5 replies
    Taipei Times ^ | 3/6/24 | AP
    Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels yesterday collided in the disputed South China Sea and four Filipino crewmembers were injured in high-seas confrontations. The China Coast Guard ships and accompanying vessels blocked the Philippine Coast Guard and supply vessels off the disputed Second Thomas Shoal (Renai Shoal, 仁愛暗沙) and executed dangerous maneuvers that caused two minor collisions between the Chinese ships and two of the Philippine vessels, Philippine officials said. — The supply boat, crewed by Filipino navy personnel, was later hit by water cannon blasts from two Chinese coast guard ships. Its windshield shattered, injuring at least four Filipino...
  • Phillipines Relaxes Rules for Rifles to Counter Threats From China (Bearing Arms)

    03/05/2024 1:22:24 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 8 replies
    Bearing Arms ^ | March 5, 2024 | Cam Edwards
    Gun laws in the Philippines aren't as atrocious as many other countries in southeast Asia, but they're still wildly draconian compared to most states in the U.S. There are an estimated 4 million gun owners in the country, but in order to lawfully possess a gun owners have to jump through numerous government-imposed hoops like psychological testing and training mandates, and some guns that are commonly owned here are off-limits to the average Filipino. This week, however, the Philippine National Police announced that soon civilians will be able to purchase and possess semi-automatic rifles; a major change to the country's...
  • Chinese fishing vessels are going scorched earth and pumping cyanide into contested waters, Philippine fishing authority says

    02/22/2024 8:55:31 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 39 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 02 19 2024 | Matthew Loh
    The Philippines' fishing bureau has accused Chinese fishing vessels of using cyanide to destroy Scarborough Shoal, a fish-rich atoll in the South China Sea contested by both Manila and Beijing. "These Chinese fishermen use cyanide," Nazario Briguera, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, said on Saturday, per a translation from Filipino by The Philippine Star. Cyanide fishing is a controversial fishing method that typically involves dumping the highly toxic chemical near coral reefs or in fishing grounds to stun or kill fish so they can be easily captured. It's widely condemned because it indiscriminately affects most...
  • 'Missiles Filled With Water Instead of Fuel': Xi Jinping Furiously Purges Military of Corruption

    01/06/2024 8:34:05 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 75 replies
    Red State ^ | 01/06/2024 | Joe Cunningham
    American foreign policy experts have long argued that China has been laying the groundwork for a permanent rise as a major global power, and U.S. politicians (particularly on the Republican side) have certainly counted the ways in which China is clearly our No. 1 geopolitical foe. However, China's ascendency isn't without its setbacks, and at times it seems possible that China is closer to declining than rising. Their economy hasn't recovered since COVID-19, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been dealing with more internal struggles than were previously let on. One such problem for the leader of the Chinese Communist...
  • The PRC’s Aggression Is Happening Now Against the Philippines

    01/01/2024 4:29:17 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 15 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 1 Jan, 2024 | James E. Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer
    The PRC has adopted a sustained coercive campaign against the Philippines to seize its sovereign territory. The world is witnessing this aggression today in the South China Sea. Awarning from the 20th century is that dictatorships tend to use aggression not first against great powers but against smaller states. Hitler pressured Austria and seized the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia before seizing the rest of the Czech Republic, turning Slovakia into a protectorate, and seizing Memel (Klaipeda) from Lithuania. After checking Japan in 1938 and 1939 in the Far East, Stalin aggressed against Poland with his ally Nazi Germany before turning to...
  • Philippines says Chinese coast guard fired water cannons against its ships delivering supplies off disputed shoal

    12/10/2023 4:50:20 PM PST · by DFG · 3 replies
    AP via NY Post ^ | 12/10/2023 | AP
    The Chinese coast guard targeted Philippine vessels with water cannon blasts Sunday and rammed one of them, causing damage and endangering Filipino crew members off a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, just a day after similar hostilities at another contested shoal, Philippine officials said. The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, immediately condemned the latest confrontation near the Second Thomas Shoal, where two Philippine navy-operated supply boats and two Philippine coast guard escort ships had sailed to deliver food and other supplies to Filipino forces in a long-marooned navy ship that serves as a territorial outpost....
  • Dozens of US A-10 Thunderbolt II Arrive in Clark Air Base, Philippines

    12/05/2023 5:17:17 AM PST · by Paul R. · 27 replies
    YouTube ^ | 12/03/2023 | War Is Boring
    Poster says use of their text is forbidden without permission, so, link only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfYhXzPRkqA
  • Explosion during Catholic mass in Philippines kills three, injures nine Governor condemns "violent bombing" at Mindanao State University

    12/02/2023 8:00:14 PM PST · by Nextrush · 32 replies
    Al Jazeera ^ | Al Jazeera and News Agencies
    An explosion at a university gymnasium in the southern Philippines has killed three people and wounded nine others, according to local authorities. The blast ripped through a Catholic mass service on Sunday at Mindanao State University in Marawi City... Police said they were investigating the explosion, including the possibility that it was carried out by pro-Islamic State militants...
  • Foreign Country Bans Smartmatic Voting Machines Firm to 'Safeguard Integrity of Elections'

    12/02/2023 2:54:53 PM PST · by DFG · 13 replies
    Western Journal ^ | 12/02/2023 | Jack Davis
    The Philippine Commission on Elections has banned Smartmatic Philippines Inc. from the nation’s elections, ending 13 years of the company being the main provider of election technology to the nation. The decision revolved around allegations of bribery that claim commission chairman Andres Bautista was paid off to ensure Smartmatic won the contract for the 2016 elections, according to the Philippine edition of CNN. Bautista has denied the allegations. Although Smartmatic argued it has followed the rules, noting that there are nothing but allegations against it, the commission was unmoved. “Although these allegations, stemming from incidents potentially spanning at least three...
  • Tsunami Warnings issued in Philippines after magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes offshore

    12/02/2023 9:46:10 AM PST · by CFW · 26 replies
    Fox news ^ | 12/2/23 | staff
    DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Tsunami warnings have ended for parts of the coastal Philippines after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the southeastern coast Saturday night, according to the USGS. The quake struck at 10:37 p.m. local time Saturday night, or 9:37 a.m. ET, near the province of Surigao del Sur in Mindanao, the second-largest island of the Philippines. The USGS noted the quake occurred at a depth of 32.8 km, or just over 20 miles deep out at sea.
  • Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake Strikes Mindanao, Philippines - EMSC

    12/02/2023 6:59:47 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    us news ^ | 12/02/2023
    An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck Mindanao, Philippines on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 63 km (39.15 miles), EMSC added.
  • Philippines earthquake [Friday]: authorities report deaths from falling debris

    11/20/2023 6:05:17 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    the guardian ^ | Fri 17 Nov 2023
    The death toll from a strong earthquake off the southern Philippines rose to five on Saturday as authorities reported more casualties across two provinces. The 6.7-magnitude quake that struck the Mindanao region mid-afternoon on Friday caused part of a shopping mall ceiling to collapse, triggered power cuts and sent people fleeing into the streets. Falling debris from the mall in General Santos City crushed a woman to death, while 19 other people were treated for shock, city police captain Ari Noel Cardos said. Police earlier reported the death of a couple pinned under a collapsing concrete wall in General Santos,...
  • Japan and Philippines to Negotiate Defense Pact (and China Is Not Happy About It)

    11/03/2023 8:57:06 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Hotair ^ | 11/03/23 | John Sexton
    There have been several recent incidents where China has done its best to bully the Philippines in the South China Sea. Those incidents haven’t gone unnoticed by some of China’s neighbors. Now Japan and the Philippines are teaming up to create a new defense pact. Japan’s PM headed to the Philippines today for two days of talks.Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan said on Friday that his country would start formal talks with the Philippines to allow the deployment of Japanese troops to the Southeast Asian country, further strengthening ties between two countries that have embraced each other as bulwarks...
  • Biden says US is willing to fight China on behalf of the Philippines following ship collision near disputed island

    10/25/2023 3:49:00 PM PDT · by McGruff · 90 replies
    NY Post ^ | Oct. 25, 2023 | Steven Nelson
    President Biden said Wednesday that the US military is willing to fight nuclear-armed China on behalf of the Philippines after ships from the two Asian countries collided near a disputed, unpopulated island in the South China Sea. “The United States defense agreement with the Philippines is ironclad. Any attack on the Filipino aircraft, vessels or armed forces will invoke our mutual defense treaty with the Philippines,” Biden said during a joint press conference at the White House alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. On Sunday, two of Manila’s military ships collided with a Chinese vessel that sought to block them...
  • US renews warning it will defend Philippines after incidents with Chinese vessels in South China Sea

    10/23/2023 8:21:01 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    AP via Yahoo! ^ | Updated Mon, October 23, 2023 at 6:22 AM CDT | JIM GOMEZ and SIMINA MISTREANU
    South China Sea Collision This image released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, shows a Chinese militia vessel, top, and Philippine coast guard vessel BRP Cabra as they approach Second Thomas Shoal, locally called Ayungin Shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Sunday Oct. 22, 2023. (Armed Forces of the Philippines via AP) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under a 1951 treaty, after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels off a contested shoal in the South...
  • Manila Says Chinese Vessels 'Intentionally' Hit Philippine Boats

    10/23/2023 2:16:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 23 Oct 2023
    Manila said on Monday (Oct 23) that Chinese vessels "intentionally hit" Philippine boats at the weekend, escalating a diplomatic row over two collisions in the South China Sea. The countries have traded blame over Sunday's incidents near Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands, with both sides filing diplomatic protests and releasing videos to support their accusations. The two collisions happened during a Philippine resupply mission to troops stationed on a navy vessel that was grounded on the shoal in 1999 to assert Manila's territorial claims.
  • Chinese boats ram Philippine vessels, near shoal: Manila

    10/22/2023 2:58:24 PM PDT · by ifinnegan · 30 replies
    Taipei Times ^ | 10/23/23 | AP, Manila
    A China Coast Guard ship and an accompanying vessel yesterday rammed a Philippine Coast Guard ship and a military-run supply boat off a contested shoal, Philippine officials said, in an encounter that heightened fears of an armed conflict in the disputed South China Sea. A top Philippine security official said there were no injuries among the Filipino crew and an assessment of the damage to both vessels was under way. The official said that the two incidents near Second Thomas Shoal (Renai Shoal, 仁愛暗沙), where China has repeatedly tried to isolate a Philippine marine outpost, could have been worse if...
  • Disgraced Elections Administrator Gets New Gig in Dallas County

    10/22/2023 1:12:47 PM PDT · by DFG · 2 replies
    Current Revolt ^ | 10/19/2023Q | GORDON BOMBAY
    After being run out of Tarrant County for alleged election discrepancies in the 2020 vote-by-mail election, Heider Garcia is now running the elections office right next door in Dallas County. YIKES! Many Republicans in Dallas County are hoping Dallas Mayor and freshly-minted Republican, Eric Johnson, will bolster his newly discovered conservative brand by calling for Garcia’s removal and push for election integrity. Will he rise to the occasion? Star-Telegram: Tarrant County’s former election administrator is headed next door to Dallas County to run its elections. Heider Garcia resigned from his Tarrant County job in April, citing disagreements with County Judge...
  • Philippines’ ex-President Rodrigo Duterte says Israel should ‘crush Hamas’, turn Gaza into ‘world’s biggest cemetery’

    10/12/2023 5:15:13 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, known for his colourful language, has suggested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crush Gaza and turn the Hamas-controlled territory into the “world’s biggest cemetery”, after escalating attacks from both sides left more than 2,000 people dead. Israel relentlessly bombarded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes after Palestinian militants last Saturday rained rockets on the Jewish state and gunmen stormed its cities, killing hundreds and abducting dozens, including foreigners. Duterte told broadcaster SMNI News that if he were Netanyahu, he would eliminate Hamas by razing the sealed-off enclave to the ground. “I will crush...