China's efforts to put more pressure on the Philippines over a disputed atoll in the Sea could prove an early test for ...

This 2024, the world has been a witness to numerous tensions between claimant-countries, shifting alliances, and calls for a ...

Two weeks ago China rammed a Philippine coastguard cutter on another shoal, tearing a gap in its hull. Such confrontations ...

I ndia and the Philippines may be thousands of kilometres apart, but their shared maritime concerns, particularly China’s ...

From defending its territorial waters in the West Philippine Sea to tackling domestic issues and challenges overseas, the Philippines faced a tumultuous 2024. Maritime ...

Since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022, Manila increasingly pushed back, with Chinese maritime forces ... as the Spratly Islands' Second Thomas Shoal and Sabina Shoal, with ...

The National Maritime Council also alleged that a ... that ended a series of confrontations over Second Thomas Shoal, some 60 kilometers to the west. These confrontations, and the concurrent ...

Maritime law expert Jay Batongbacal said China has been more aggressive and oppressive in 2024 as he recalled the June 17 incident in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal where a Filipino soldier lost his ...

Introduction The President of the Philippines Marcos Jr. on 7 November 2024 signed the Philippine Maritime Zones Act (PMZA) ...

Under Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the Philippines has shifted its focus back to the United States and their support for the Southeast Asian nation's maritime ... troops on Second Thomas Shoal.