Marcos change of heart on EDCA — why?
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…
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May 11, 2023
Philippines: Intriguing Supreme Court Ruling on JMSU, A Coincidence?
The recent ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) on the “Joint Marine Seismic Understanding (JMSU) Among the Philippines, Vietnamese, and Chinese Oil Firms” is quite intriguing. It came a few…
January 20, 2023
Intriguing Supreme Court ruling on JMSU: Implications and consequence
THE recent ruling of the Supreme Court declaring the "Joint Marine Seismic Understanding (JMSU) among the Philippines, Vietnamese and Chinese oil firms" unconstitutional, is quite intriguing. It came a few…
January 19, 2023
Philippines President Marcos’s State Visit to China: Economic & Political Gains
The renaissance of the friendly and good bilateral relations between the Philippines and China despite existing differences is one of the legacies of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration that yielded…
January 12, 2023
Naivety or Subservience?
SIDE BY SIDE US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin 3rd and his Philippine counterpart Jose C. Faustino Jr. hold a news conference in Hawaii on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 (Friday…
October 4, 2022
PH-US Relations Amid Geopolitical Realities and Challenges Under a Marcos Jr. Presidency
Two of the many essential questions in Philippine foreign policy that have been consistently asked by Filipinos and people in the foreign policy circle ever since the Philippines received its…
September 24, 2022
Philippines: Time to Ratify RCEP
Among the 15 member-states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), only the Philippines has not ratified the biggest trade deal in history and across the globe. The most recent…
September 17, 2022
The Need for a Genuine Independent Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World
Photo Credit: Difference Group LTD. and IDSI A changing and evolving world order from a unipolar world to a multipolar one is fast approaching and forthcoming. The unipolar world that…
July 18, 2022
Withdrawn or Renegotiation?
Friday (15 July 2022), Usec. for Rails Cezar Chavez of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said that China has withdrawn funding for three big-ticket railway projects of the previous administration…
July 15, 2022
NTF-ELCAC, Red-Tagging under the New Administration
Source: NTF-ELCAC FB Page The result of the PUBLICUS survey is a resounding affirmation that the successes of the Duterte administration and its priority programs should be continued by the…
July 11, 2022