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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
The Slow Simmering Battle for the South China Sea
First came the concrete markers engraved in multiple languages. Naval aviators from the Philippines would spot them during surveillance flights in the mid-1990s and dispatch forces to remove them. Then came the huts—small, wooden structures teetering on stilts on uninhabited islands, fit maybe for fishermen to take shelter during storms. They looked innocuous enough, one of the pilots, Alberto Carlos, recalls thinking.
Only later did Carlos understand that he was witnessing the initial phases of China’s conquest of the South
Video Shows China Blasting Water Cannon at Philippines Coast Guard Boat
The Philippine Coast Guard has released a video that shows a Chinese Coast Guard vessel firing a water cannon at one of its ships, going public with a new complaint of aggressive behavior from China.
Two vessels of the Philippines Coast Guard were on what was supposed to be a normal resupply mission 120 miles off the coast of Palawan, when they ran into a Chinese blockade. After a Chinese vessel fired its water cannon at one Philippine ship, it
Philippine Coast Guard Meets Chinese Blockade
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Video shows the Chinese Coast Guard firing a water cannon at a Philippine vessel and blocking it from executing a resupply mission.
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The Chinese Coast Guard and Chinese militia vessels have no right whatsoever to place a blockade or impede or otherwise control the movement of the Philippines Coast Guard and Philippine supply boats in Ayungin Shoal or anywhere else in the
Vietnam will export 2M doses of swine fever vaccine to Philippines by October
Vietnam will export two million vaccine doses against African swine fever to the Philippines by October, the government said on Wednesday, one week after it approved domestic use of the world’s first commercial vaccines against the disease.
African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market. In the worst outbreak in 2018-19, about half the domestic pig population died in China, the world’s biggest producer, causing losses estimated at over $100 billion.
The vaccine to be
EU, Philippines agree to relaunch free trade talks – EURACTIV.com
The EU and the Philippines will restart negotiations on a free-trade agreement as they seek to accelerate “a new era of cooperation”, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday (31 July).
Talks began in 2015 under then-Philippine president Benigno Aquino but stalled two years later under his successor Rodrigo Duterte, whose deadly drug war strained diplomatic relations with the West and sparked an international probe.
“I’m very glad that we have decided to relaunch negotiations for (a)
Von der Leyen blasts Beijing in Manila speech – POLITICO
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen used a speech in Manila on Monday to take aim at China, slamming Beijing for its increasingly militant stance in the Indo-Pacific and its failure to live up to international responsibilities on Ukraine.
Delivering a keynote speech at the Philippines Business Forum, von der Leyen said that China, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, “has yet to assume fully its responsibility under the U.N. Charter to uphold the sovereignty and territorial
First Responders Arrive at Capsized Passenger Ferry in the Philippines
Strong winds from Typhoon Doksuri capsized the vessel, killing dozens of people. The Philippine Coast Guard said they rescued at least 40.
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Floods in the Philippines After Typhoon Doksuri Makes Landfall
One video showed a house floating through a town. In another, several motorcycles on a shaky ferry toppled over. Residents in other areas waded through the floodwaters with belongings, including livestock.
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Preparing for War in the South China Sea
“Imagine you have a visitor who comes into your house,” Corazon Valdez Fabros said over Zoom from Quezon City in the Philippines. “You welcome this visitor. But this is a visitor who has all the guns, all the materials, that basically you