https://youtu.be/1YPXSR7G11c This video is an edited version of the original. Sharing my very interesting, engaging, and somewhat very…very… candid interview with Amanda Yee in her program, The China Report of…
There are personalities in the Philippines who say that Marcos Jr.’s presidency and administration are under threat of destabilization. But I contend otherwise. For what it's worth, if one closely…
The signing of the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) 3.0 Protocol during the 2025 Kuala Lumpur ASEAN Summit marks a historic step in the region’s economic evolution. What began in…
https://youtu.be/gsYykIU4nSw Since the Marcos administration took office in the Philippines, it has continuously provoked tensions over the South China Sea issue. What is driving this shift in the Philippines' South…
THE world’s two superpowers have now formalized what many already sensed: The United States and China are in a long-term, structural rivalry. Yet both sides, one through the RAND’s recent…
The recently concluded ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, marked one of the most consequential moments in the bloc’s history. For the first time since the 1990s, ASEAN expanded its…
https://youtu.be/if83h1YrU1M My SMNI Nightline News interview last night unpacked how the Xi–Trump meeting in the APEC Summit resets great-power atmospherics, why Manila must avoid over-alignment, and how domestic governance—not slogans—determines…
https://youtu.be/qub870_cnts Prof. Anna Rosario Malindog-Uy in-depth interview with Ileana Chan for Episode 52 of the Global Majority for Peace Podcast. For the link, refer below. In this episode, Ileana and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHGUaaMD4Ic The discussion centers on the recently concluded ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, specifically the upgraded CAFTA 3.0 and the RCEP Leaders’ Summit, Kuala Lumpur Accord, and the accession…
Yesterday, October 25, 2025, the foreign and economic ministers of ASEAN gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the first-ever joint ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-AEM). The event seemed routine at first glance.…