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“We are re-strategising the way we do things, naturally with the end in view of both preventing injuries and number two, upholding the dignity of our country,” Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro junior said in an interview in his office in Manila on Tuesday.
The Philippines has decided not to announce resupply missions to a disputed South China Sea shoal in advance as Manila pushes for talks with Beijing to defuse tensions following a recent stand-off in the waterway.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Sweden’s defense chief has expressed alarm over Beijing’s repeated dangerous maneuvers against Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, saying such actions threaten security, undermine stability and underscore the need to invest “for our security and freedom.”
As the lawmakers flew to Pag-asa Island – the largest island in the Philippine-claimed Kalayaan Island Group within the contested Spratly Islands – on Thursday, they reported being challenged by Chinese forces who sent a radio message to their plane instructing them to leave what it claimed to be Beijing’s territory.
Philippine officials have accused Beijing of violating an anti-wiretapping law over a controversial phone conversation that the Chinese claimed was recorded between their diplomat and a Filipino navy officer.
The April 22 to May 8 drills involve some 16,000 soldiers and showcase Manila’s new Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), a strategy that aims to defend the country’s exclusive economic zone.
The Philippines officially kicked off its new Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), a shot across China’s bow which among other things orders an increased military presence on the northernmost island province of Batanes near Taiwan.
MANILA – “We are not satisfied with minimum [deterrence capability alone]…movement is life, stagnation is death,” Colonel Micheal Logico, a top strategist at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), recently told this reporter when asked about the country’s evolving defense strategy. “We [need] to elevate ourselves into a world-class armed forces,” he added.