WHILE President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his military brass have been on overdrive to condemn China's alleged aggressiveness in Philippine West Sea, another claimant, Vietnam, has been on an island-building…
IN his 1796 farewell address, George Washington, dubbed the Founder of the USA, cautioned the young American republic against exactly the trap that Philippine foreign policy has walked into: “A…
Last of two parts CHINA’s electric-vehicle (EV) industry did not emerge because markets happened to reward innovation, nor because entrepreneurs were suddenly liberated. It emerged because the Communist Party of…
AMID Brazil’s bold denial of its ports to US vessels and Russia’s naval probing, China’s reaction to the US intervention in Venezuela has been rhetorically sharp but materially restrained. Beijing’s…
CORRUPTION kills economies more efficiently than any war. It steals not only money but hope. Every Filipino knows it, yet most Philippine administrations still drown in scandals. Corruption cases seem…
Second of a series on the South China Sea disputes PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. made a fool of himself at the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meetings when…
THE recent report by a US think tank Asian Maritime Transparency Institute (AMTI) — an anti-China outfit — on Vietnam’s rush to accelerate the building of artificial islands, and fortifications…
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has strengthened our vassalage to the United States, implying that it would even join the superpower in defending Taiwan against China when it claims it violently…
