Dec. 13, 2025 In short: (ABC-Australia) The Philippine Coast Guard says three fishermen were injured and two boats damaged after being struck by water cannon fired by the China Coast Guard. The clash occurred at Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea, well within the Phillipines’ exclusive economic zone. What’s next? China claims as its […]
Tag: South China Sea
China’s ocean research raise suspicions
China’s research vessel Song Hang has been hovering above Palau’s northern EEZ in the high seas pocket between Palau and the Philippines since August 17, doing parallel zigzagging patterns over the area of Palau-Kyushi Ridge in what is suspected to be seabed surveying activity. The area of the high seas where the Song Hang Chinese […]
Duterte in China amid expectation he’ll raise sea disputes
BEIJING (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was in Beijing on Thursday for a meeting with counterpart Xi Jinping in which the Southeast Asian leader is expected to discuss a ruling on the disputed South China Sea. The 2016 Hague arbitration mostly invalidated China’s claim to virtually the entire South China Sea and found that […]
