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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, seeking ways to come up with ways to reduce tensions in the South China Sea and restore Filipino fishermen ...
The fifth such meeting since August 2023 reflects growing security ties between the countries, which have both voiced concern about Chinese activity in areas of the busy waterway claimed by the ...
The Philippine coastguard this week said it had cut a 300 metre (980 feet) floating barrier installed by China that blocked access to the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal, an area Beijing has ...
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) video showing a China Coast Guard ship firing its water cannon towards a PCG ship. On August 5, 2023, the Philippine Coast Guard and the Philippine Navy were heading to the Second Thomas Shoal to conduct what it describes as a routine resupply mission for personnel aboard the BRP Sierra Madre marooned at the feature.
Working visit. President Marcos addressed the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 31 as a keynote speaker, becoming the first Philippine president to do so. [99] On the sidelines, he met with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at the Istana, [100] [101] as well as Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. [102]
In 2009, the Philippines and China signed the Joint Action Plan for Strategic Cooperation, a five-year agreement to increase cooperation in all areas. [10]: 158 In 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese president Xi Jinping created the biannual Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, a process allowing the two nations to peacefully manage disputes and ...
In addition to China and the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have been locked in separate but increasingly tense territorial disputes in the waterway, which is regarded as a ...
2023 in the Philippines details notable events that occurred in the Philippines in 2023. On July 21, 2023, President Bongbong Marcos announced that the government will formally lift the COVID-19 state of public health emergency, marking the end of the three years of the pandemic. The emergency was officially lifted the following day.