Chinese and Philippine vessels manoeuvre within ~90m off Scarborough Shoal on 23 June, days after Beijing's floating platform and buoys reopened the standoff
Philippines
At a 35th-anniversary summit in Kazan, ASEAN and Russia adopt four cooperation documents; the Philippines' Marcos co-chairs even as he leans on Washington
Manila condemns Beijing's 3,500-hectare reserve as a sovereignty grab, mandates Philippine names for sea features, while chairing ASEAN and courting a code of conduct
257 House votes, $110m in flagged transfers, and a trial that runs in parallel with the elder Duterte's ICC case at The Hague