THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China are set to hold the next round of negotiations on a Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea in…
ON July 3, 2023, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu reiterated that there would be no change to the government's plan to start releasing nuclear-contaminated water into the sea by…
Illustration: Xia Qing/GT Military cooperation between the Philippines and the US has been intensifying lately, and discussions are bubbling up about the possibility of the US-Japan-Australia-Philippines grouping becoming the new…
THE recent controversial issue of the demand of the United States for the Philippines to temporarily host around 50,000 Afghan "refugees" while their US immigration applications, particularly the special immigrant…
Editor's Note: The annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue gets underway on Friday. Pressing security concerns will be touched upon, yet most of the attention is on China-US ties, and the two's different…
AS far as the recent visit of Sen. Risa Hontiveros to Taiwan is concerned, it was a no-no. President Corazon Aquino's Executive Order 313, s. 1987 signed on Dec. 17,…
IN an Asian Century forum on the topic last May 6, on the topic "Is war imminent over Taiwan between US and China, is the Philippines now in the middle…
THE last couple of weeks were pretty interesting. A lot of things happened, but two of the most striking events that are in many ways connected are first, the protest…
THE visit of Chinese State Counselor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang to the Philippines from April 21 to 23, 2023, on the invitation of Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo, is timely…
IN the spring or summer of 2021, Japan alarmingly announced that it would release around 1.3 million tons of contaminated water or wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power…