@RichHeydarian@yooooona1234 You posting this regurgitating that the Philippine position alone is the correct position, damages our diplomatic fight.
Nations in ASEAN supports us, they dont just agree that what we claim is totally ours. That we can sort out by ourselves.
What I dont understand about this damn onion cartel is that domestic onion production is already good enough to meet domestic consumption.
If there was a cartel to be made, rice wouldve made more sense - which there actually already is.
Nasabat ng Bureau of Customs ang 26 na container na inabandonang sibuyas mula sa China. Ayon sa BOC, dumating sa bansa ang mga ito noong December at January. | via @JohnsonManabat
The Satellite to Mobile internet rollout is now already paying dividends. Good to see Starlink help us in this time of need.
Elon still sucks ass but credit where credit is due.
Starlink is providing free connectivity to Globe customers in the Southern Mindanao earthquake zones after the devastating earthquake in the Philippines.
Starlink always shows up when people need help the most. Thank you Elon โค๏ธ
๐จCHINAโS NEW MOVE IN THE WEST PHILIPPINES SEA IS RAISING ALARMS | The presence of Chinese nationals on a floating platform inside Bajo de Masinloc, coupled with the coordinated deployment of PLA Navy warships, China Coast Guard vessels, maritime militia units, and rotary-wing aviation assets, reflects a calculated campaign to entrench Chinaโs influence and establish a persistent footprint within Philippine waters.
These actions are indicative of an ongoing gray-zone operation aimed at transforming temporary presence into perceived control, undermining Philippine sovereignty while advancing Chinaโs strategic objective of consolidating dominance in the West Philippine Sea.
๐ข The World is Watching. Share and Expose the deception. Defend the truth.
#BRPSierraMadre #WestPhilippineSea #ScarboroughShoal #BajoDeMasinloc #DefendTheTruth #KnowTheFacts #RulesBasedOrder #ProtectWhatIsOurs #MaritimeRights #FactsOverPropaganda
Taiwanโs Coast Guard Administration says five Chinese government vessels, including Haixun 06, Haixun 08, Haixun 09, Donghai Jiu 113, and CCG 2202, operated east of Taiwan and broadcast inquiries about port entry to three passing merchant cargo ships while falsely asserting jurisdiction.
According to Taiwanโs CGA, Haixun 06 queried a Singapore-flagged vessel near Eluanbi on June 7, a Liberian-flagged vessel east of Suao on June 9, and a Benin-flagged vessel east of Sandiaojiao later the same morning.
Taiwanese Coast Guard vessels warned the Chinese ships that they had no jurisdiction in Taiwanโs EEZ and told the merchant vessels to maintain normal navigation and ignore the Chinese broadcasts.
๐ธ: Joseph Wu, Secretary-General of Taiwan's National Security Council
Japan imports 90% of its bananas mostly from Mindanao. Hopefully this below normal rainfall doesnt affect it much.
Especially as Vietnam's banana exports to Japan is growing by the day, helped by the fact that they are part of CPTPP - which I reiterate the need for us to join.
SEA people, make some noisee ๐๐ฃ๏ธ๐
We're in for a wild ride, a hot one that is. For June-July-August (JJA) 2026, above normal temperature is forcast for the entire SEA while below normal rainfall in most maritime SEA especially in Indonesia.
Uh uh haze might come back ๐ท๐ข
๐จTHE BASHI BREAKOUT: ๐จ๐ณ#China has, for the first time, pushed a paramilitary sovereignty assertion past its own "10-dash line" & beyond the First Island Chain to challenge a maritime negotiation it isn't party to.
On May 28, ๐ฏ๐ต#Japan & the ๐ต๐ญ#Philippines announced they would delimit their overlapping exclusive economic zones as prescribed by #UNCLOS. Beijing's answer was to send a flotilla through the Bashi Channel & into the open Pacific east of ๐น๐ผ#Taiwan, into waters that even its own most expansive maps don't (yet) claim.
The key is in which ships Beijing sent: China uses its navy to assert capability--what it can do by force. It uses its coast guard & other government ships as a paramilitary force to assert sovereignty--what it claims.
Not one ship in this flotilla was a warship, because this was a sovereignty claim.
That's what's really new here. For over a decade China used these same gray-zone tactics to assert sovereignty inside its South China Sea "nine-dash line". This week's action pushed somewhere new--going past even the 10th "dash" Beijing added to its 2023 map.
Beyond the First Island Chain.
This assertion was aimed not at Taiwan alone, but at two ๐บ๐ธUS treaty allies. @China_MFA branded the Japan-Philippine talks "completely illegal and void", while a June 1 @globaltimesnews editorial called the idea "an extraordinary and almost unprecedented absurdityโฆ akin to two neighbors sitting in your living room and discussing how to divide your backyard."
Note how China's "backyard" continues to expand. So, in fact, does its "living room".
What SeaLight's tracking shows:
๐น From 1-5 June, CCG cutters Daishan (2502) & Baita (2304) ran the first clockwise patrol over 200nm east of Taiwan's easternmost island--well past the 10th "dash" on Beijing's 2023 map.
๐น Late on June 7th, a second wave of 3 provincial Maritime Safety Administration cutters & a rescue tug pushed into the Bashi Channel. The formation entered Taiwan's restricted waters ~30nm off the southern tip, drew a 7-ship Taiwan Coast Guard standoff, then also pushed east.
Beijing's state media left no doubt about what it all meant, first with an official @XHNews/@globaltimesnews announcement, then a June 7 Global Times viewpoint column naming the operation "a sovereignty declaration with both legal significance and political signaling."
Taiwan's NSC chief @josephwutw named it "expansionism in disguise," Defense Minister Koo said it was "cognitive warfare." Both are quite correct.
But the deeper target is Tokyo, Manila & Washington DC, since if Beijing can run a paramilitary sovereignty assertion directly against two US allies' lawful EEZ talks in waters far beyond even its own claim lines, the real message is that China's maritime claims are not just expansive and ambiguous, they are unbounded.
๐ Tracking by @StarboardIntel
#Chinaโs Hai Xun & CG vessels are harassing commercial ships in #Taiwanโs EEZ to fabricate a facade of #PRC jurisdiction. This expansionism is a major escalation of regional tension. We call on all commercial vessels in the area to ignore #CCG radio calls.
CV16Liaoning & its CSG are operating in Philippine waters 400 nautical miles east of Luzon on Monday
The U.S. Washington (CVN-73) CGS appears to be intercepting CV16Liaoning en route to Australia, while the USS Boxer is deployed near the east coast of Malaya.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: Agad na nagpunta si DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon sa General Santos City ngayong hapon kasama ng iba pang opisyal ng OCD, DepEd, DSWD, at DOH upang tingnan at magsagawa ng on-ground assessment sa mga naapektuhang imprastraktura | Full Story: https://t.co/kMEEojHpV2
LOOK: In an emergency live broadcast, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) explains what happened at the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Mindanao (,Philippines) earlier this morning, June 08, 2026.
The agency and the Japanese government immediately activated emergency protocols following the destructive earthquake. #EarthquakePH
@Drethegrater Thats the problem. We dont even have an air defense network to begin with yet
Its always a matter of budgetary constraints - in this case, the PAF wisely chose going with the more capable fixed radars, as long as any AD system keep that vulnerability in mind, its good enough
@nothanksfrankie@SeaLightFound@GordianKnotRay China also started on "floating structures" when they first started invading Philippine territory. The blockade around Scarborough has to be broken one way or another.
A proud moment for the Heart of the Filipino โ๏ธ๐ต๐ญ
Philippine Airlinesโ invitation to join the oneworld Alliance was officially announced on June 6, 2026 at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
As the first and only Philippine carrier, and the second full member airline based in Southeast Asia invited to join the alliance, PAL moves one step closer to connecting travelers to a global network of nearly 1,000 destinations across more than 170 countries and territories.
This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter as PAL strengthens its role in bringing the Philippines closer to the world.
Read more: https://t.co/no7QUVfeLr