Why I will never believe in the end of history
FRANCIS Fukuyama, author of “The End of History and the Last Man”, has been making some noise online by revisiting his original thesis, which...
The implications of Xi Jinping’s third term
XI JINPING is now in his third term as General Secretary. This may sound unimportant to your average Filipino, but I would argue otherwise.
Xi...
Hu Jintao has left the building
LAST week was the Climax of the People’s Republic of China’s National People’s Congress.
Xi Jinping apparently won and, from what I can tell, now...
Power ultimately triumphs over democracy
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
SOME two weeks ago, portions of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts held referendums to secede from Ukraine and...
What will World War 3 look like?
GROWING up, I encountered several books, movies, documentaries, and articles touching on World War 3, and what it may look like.
In many cases, World...
The cost of solar energy
MANY countries are facing energy problems right now, thanks largely (but not exclusively) to sanctions against Russia.
To deal with this problem, Western leaders have...
Russia’s pivot to Asia
RUSSIA has always had a limited presence/influence in Asia relative to the US, and this is partly because of its geography and demographics.
Despite its...
Europe faces an energy crisis
THERE was an old video of President Trump warning German officials of their country’s overdependence on Russian oil. The Germans were chuckling in that...
The geopolitical implications of a MAGA GOP
DONALD Trump’s 2016 election has done much to undermine the Bush family’s influence in the Republican Party, and he continues to undermine the more...
The F.B.I. raids Trump
RECENTLY, the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided Mar-a-Lago, home of former US. President Donald Trump, and acquired several documents from his...