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    Andrei Soldatov “The problem is to actually be able to prevent terrorist attacks, you need to have a really good and efficient system of intelligence sharing and intelligence gathering. Trust is needed inside the home agency and with agencies of other countries, as is good coordination. That's where you have problems.” 9 hours ago
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    Dmitry Peskov “All war crimes [committed] by the Kyiv regime are thoroughly documented. We were well aware of these crimes. And, of course, we will make sure that those behind these crimes are duly punished.” 9 hours ago
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    Timothy Snyder “The terrorists' car was stopped near Bryansk, which is in western Russia, and so vaguely near Ukraine, which means that the four Tajiks in a Renault were intending to cross the Ukrainian border, which means that they had Ukrainian backers, which means that it was a Ukrainian operation, which means that the Americans were behind it. The reasoning here leaves something to be desired. And the series of associations rests on no factual basis.” 9 hours ago
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    Vladimir Putin “We have no aggressive intentions towards these states. The idea that we will attack some other country - Poland, the Baltic States, and the Czechs are also being scared - is complete nonsense. It's just drivel. If they supply F-16s, and they are talking about this and are apparently training pilots, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy the aircraft just as we destroy today tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment, including multiple rocket launchers. Of course, if they will be used from airfields in third countries, they become for us legitimate targets, wherever they might be located.” 9 hours ago
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Philippines position in the South China Sea issue

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“We must reestablish sea control around the shoal [Second Thomas Shoal] because if we don't control it, our resupply is vulnerable to their coercive tactics.”

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Maritime security expert and retired vice commander of the Philippine Navy
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“We call upon Beijing to desist from its provocative and unsafe conduct. The United States stands with our Philippine allies in upholding the rules-based international maritime order and reaffirms that an armed attack in the Pacific, which includes the South China Sea, on Philippine armed forces, public vessels, or aircraft, including those of the Coast Guard, would invoke US mutual defense commitments.”

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US State Department spokesperson
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“The United States stands with our Philippine allies in the face of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Coast Guard's reported use of laser devices against the crew of a Philippine Coast Guard ship. The United States reiterates, pursuant to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, the 2016 arbitral decision is final and legally binding on the PRC and the Philippines, and we call upon the PRC to abide by the ruling.”

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Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
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“We abhor the recent event in the Ayungin Shoal and view with grave concern other similar developments. This does not speak well of the relations between our nations and our partnership. We must fully utilise these [the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 2016 Hague arbitration] legal tools to ensure that the South China Sea remains a sea of peace, stability, and prosperity.”

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President of the Philippines
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“With the progress China made in fortifying its artificial islands in the South China Sea, it will be impossible to even envisage that it would willingly relinquish those possessions within the Philippines' EEZ [exclusive economic zone]. There's no way to reverse the fait accompli short of evicting the Chinese from those artificial outposts by use of force, which would mean war.”

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Research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
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“Manila certainly missed a chance to echo a consistent unified narrative on its claims … which Beijing saw as an opportunity to flex its muscles and build the largest coast guard and maritime militia for its strategic advantage. Instead, Filipinos heard defeatist rhetoric from the commander-in-chief as he kept mum on continuous Chinese incursions into the Philippines' exclusive economic zone (EEZ).”

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President and founder of Manila-based think-tank International Development and Security Cooperation
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“Well, it doesn't [referring to claims made by a spokesperson of China's Mission in Brussels that stated that Julian Felipe Reef (or Whitsun Reef) 'belongs to China']. It belongs to the Philippines whatever native journalists are paid to say to the contrary. The Philippines will never give it up.”

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Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary
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“Unfortunately, the Philippines is weak. We've seen and documented what other claimants have been doing to shore up their claims. We've seen how much weaker the Philippines is in protecting [its] territory, compared to the other claimants. If this weakness continues, we will surely see more features being occupied by other countries.”

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Co-founder and CEO of Simularity (US-based geospatial company monitoring incursions in the South China Sea)
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“[Philippines would become] basically a subject of China through financial investments, through the buying of influence, through the undermining of institutions. I think that there's a real danger that, left unchecked, the Philippines - no matter who the leader is - would find itself increasingly unable to act without Chinese approval. I don't think that's the kind of future that the Philippines would like.”

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Former United States Secretary of State
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“We call on the Chinese to stop this incursion and immediately recall these boats violating our maritime rights and encroaching into our sovereign territory [Whitsun Reef in the Philippines known as Julian Felipe reef].”

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Philippines Secretary of National Defense
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“The award is now part of international law, beyond compromise and beyond the reach of passing governments to dilute, diminish, or abandon. We firmly reject attempts to undermine it.”

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President of the Philippines
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“China is claiming it, we are claiming it. China has the arms. We do not have it so it’s simple as that. They are in possession of the property… So what can we do? We have to go to war, and I cannot afford it. Maybe some other President can, but I cannot.”

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President of the Philippines
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