Russia and Germany’s strange relationship
GERMANY and Russia are natural allies. In a world without NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or the EU (European Union), I think it’s likely...
Germany’s crossroad
ASIDE from the Ukrainians, another big loser of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is Germany.
Germany relies on Russian energy exports to fuel its industries, and without...
The Ukraine war is about to end, will another take its place?
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
THE Russia-Ukraine war is about to end, and the reason is that Ukraine no longer has the forces to continue...
An update on the situation in Ukraine
THIS NEW Year, I originally wanted to write about the global economy, namely about how the US is expected to have a recession in...
Being thankful for 2022 – a foreign affairs perspective
I’D LIKE to celebrate Christmas and to end the year by writing how thankful I am to be living in the Philippines. 2022 may...
Why ASEAN should befriend India
I WAS recently part of an online discussion involving China-ASEAN regional tensions.
The discussion was inspired by the People’s Republic of China’s coastguard forcibly seizing...
Twittergate
ELON MUSK has caused a lot of noise last week when he released secret information about Twitter’s activities regarding elections and censorship. It’s too...
Strong but uncertain economic outlook
LAST WEEK, I was watching videos by ColFinancial, a major Philippine stock broker, to get a sense of what their analysts have to say...
Musk’s Twitter
WHEN Elon Musk said he would buy Twitter, there was widespread concern among some of its massive userbase. When that purchase became reality, that...
The red trickle and America’s unstable democratic institutions
IT WAS the US Midterm Elections recently. Many, including myself, expected the Republicans to win big.
We were wrong. Republican gains were at best a...