Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh that both countries should refrain from unilateral actions regarding the South China Sea disputes that could complicate the situation and magnify the dispute. 2021-09-11
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia will honor the agreement to accept refugees from Central America even though the U.S. has postponed interviews with asylum seekers in a camp at the Pacific island of Nauru. 2017-02-4
U.S. President Barack Obama calls on China to stop constructing artificial islands in the South China Sea. Obama’s comments to reporters come after a meeting with Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III. The U.S. president is in Manila for the latest Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit where the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the central topic of conversation. China attempts to keep the topic of the islands off the agenda. 2015-11-18
The People's Republic of China rejects an attempt by the Philippines to seek international arbitration over conflicting claims to the South China Sea. 2013-02-19
The government of the Philippines announces that it will file a complaint against China before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea seeking arbitration for the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. 2013-01-22