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The unenviable Sino-US relationship has little chance of improving with minor and trifling issues taking forestage to shadow the major issues. In the latest incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was snubbed in China, but for what she may not know.
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Like a game of chess, except there are – depending how the international community counts – about a half dozen players around the 'table' of the South China Sea: Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, of course, China and now the USA.
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Philippine Senator Gregorio Honasan wants the United States to deploy US troops in Scarborough Shoal and other disputed areas of the West Philippine Sea to help secure and protect Philippine interests there.
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino said the Philippines may seek the help of the US by deploying its spy planes to monitor Chinese naval activities in the disputed territories in the west Philippine sea
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A former official of the Philippine marines and a group of concerned citizens of the Philippines are set to sail to Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory being claimed by China and Philippines amid ongoing talks to diffuse the tense standoff in the area
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While the current state of disagreement between China and the Philippines over the Scarborough Shoal and, more generally, the South China Sea, is certainly not new, tensions seem to be rising.
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The Philippines' biggest warship, the BRP Gergorio del Pilar, is reported to be on a tense standoff with two Chinese naval ships in the Scarborough Shoal, around 124 nautical miles off the coast of Subic Bay in Zambales, Northern Philippines.
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Taiwan is protesting the plan of the Philippines to invite foreign investors to participate in the exploration of oil and gas in the area near the Reed Bank in the West Philippine Sea.
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In his second state of the nation address (Sona), Philippine President Noynoy Aquino vowed to defend the country's claims on the island territories in the disputed Spratly Islands.
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At least five Philippine congressmen are scheduled to visit some of the Philippine-occupied islands in the disputed territories of the Spratly Islands on Wednesday.
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Manilla claims the Chinese have a garrison in the Spratly Islands.
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