G7 ministers blast China for use of water cannon vs PHL in WPS
FOREIGN ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) criticized China for firing water cannon on a Philippine supply ship in the West Philippine Sea.
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FOREIGN ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) criticized China for firing water cannon on a Philippine supply ship in the West Philippine Sea.
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said he is ready to take action on the “secret agreement” entered into by the previous administration with China concerning the South China Sea (SCS).
THE United States ambassador to the Philippines and at least 10 of her counterparts in Manila quickly called out China at the weekend for engaging Philippine vessels in “dangerous” sea maneuvers in the West Philippine Sea.
The United States is hosting the annual APEC summit of world leaders this week for the first time since 2011. Leaders from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group will gather in San Francisco to talk about how to better spur trade and economic growth across the Pacific region.
As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China’s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China’s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens.
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is looking forward to regular visits of the cruise ship Blue Dream Star, as the agency revved up its post-Covid 19 pandemic promotions to revitalize the local tourism industry.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative looks to become smaller and greener after a decade of big projects that boosted trade but left big debts and raised environmental concerns.
THE US is deepening intelligence cooperation with countries across Asia as it looks to counter Beijing’s sophisticated spying apparatus and blunt Chinese cyber attacks.
A private gauge of China’s manufacturing activity slowed its pace of expansion in September, suggesting there’s still room for caution as the nation charts its economic trajectory for the rest of the year.
THE US government is steering its other allies in increasing military presence in the South China Sea (SCS) and helping the Philippines improve its capacity to deter China’s continuing harassment and coercion in the disputed seas.
The US has backed the Philippines’ removal of a South China Sea (SCS) barrier supposedly installed by Beijing, with a Pentagon official describing the move as a “bold step” to defend maritime claims.
Emerging-market stocks gave up their gains for the year as stubborn inflation and bets on a prolonged period of high interest rates undermine growth prospects in the developing world.
UNITED KINGDOM Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said the West must engage in talks with China over how best to regulate the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), after Britain invited the country to its global AI summit later this year.
Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu made its ChatGPT-equivalent language model fully available to the public Thursday, raising the company’s stock price by over 3% following the announcement.
THE Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines, Foundation Inc. (SEIPI) has revised its growth target for electronics exports from 5 percent to zero percent for 2023 due to the ongoing geopolitical conflicts such as the trade war between the United States and China.
TOKYO—Japanese officials plan to start discharging treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a contentious step more than 12 years after a massive earthquake and tsunami set off a battle against ever-increasing amounts of radioactive water at the plant.
THE slowdown in the economic growth of China is the main reason its citizens have not been traveling abroad, especially to the Philippines.
The country’s holding of joint military exercises with China or even Vietnam is not impossible as such exercises could be considered as acts of diplomacy and part of efforts to prevent war with the country’s neighbors or any other countries, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Romeo Brawner Jr.
CHINA’S latest pledges to rebuild a shattered private sector fell flat with investors, underscoring the damage two years of crackdowns and pandemic controls have had on confidence in the world’s second-largest economy.
OVER 3 million international travelers visited the Philippines from January to July 19, 2023, with South Korea topping the list of source markets.
Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC in 2001—for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—to highlight these countries’ rapid economic expansion. Eight years later, the four countries established BRIC as a formal organization. The bloc became BRICS in 2010 when South Africa was admitted.
PARIS — UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin the UN cultural and scientific agency — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member.
BEIJING—Honduras opened an embassy in Beijing on Sunday, Chinese state media reported, months after the Central American nation broke off relations with Taiwan to establish diplomatic ties with China.
THE Philippines has remained out of the European Commission’s intellectual property (IP) rights watch list, marking five years since the last mention of the country in 2019, according to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL).
SINGAPORE—As the United States and China vie to establish new partnerships and expand influence with Asia-Pacific nations, the top defense officials from both nations are preparing to try to win support this weekend from their regional counterparts, diplomats and leaders at a security forum in Singapore.
The trade ministers of China and Japan exchanged protests over chip export controls and the detention of Japanese citizens at a meeting in Detroit last week, according to statements from both governments.
Former President now Pampanga 2nd District Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has denied any coup plot against House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China agreed in 2002 to work towards creating a Code of Conduct intended to reduce the risk of conflict in the South China Sea (SCS). The parties recognized the importance of a COC in the disputed waterway, where China’s expansive maritime and territorial claims clash with those of four Asean member states: Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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