Taliban vs ISIS
MONTHS after the Taliban took power from the American-backed secular forces that ruled Afghanistan, the new government is facing a new kind of insurgency:...
China undergoes economic transition
THE ONGOING mess in China’s real estate sector may soon change China’s economic role in the world, and that transition may affect the products...
Japan and China in 2021
I’VE BEEN hearing a lot of talk surrounding the imminent Chinese invasion of Taiwan. That news has been going on for years, and so...
US signals regulation of crypto
CHINA has banned crypto, and now the US wants to regulate it.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Gary Gensler has made not so...
China’s Evergrande situation not akin to US 2008 financial crisis
CHINA’s real estate sector has been in a bad situation these past several weeks, and the reason is Evergrande, China’s second largest real estate...
China’s war with crypto and its implications
IT’S OLD news at this point, but China is once again targeting its crypto miners, specifically the ones who have managed to evade the...
20 years after 9/11
LAST week was the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the more time passes, the more it seems that particular historical event marked...
Taliban now rules Afghanistan – what’s next?
NOW THAT the US has officially claimed that it is no longer in Afghanistan, the situation has become more confusing than when the mess...
Palantir buys gold
MOST Ilonggos, I think, probably haven’t heard of Palantir, but it is one of the most famous (if not infamous) companies in the world...
Why does America insist on nation-building?
WHY does the United States insist on going to countries and changing them into secular, modern liberal states?
Part of the reason is economic, and...