Zhang Youxia’s Purge
NOT TOO long ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) removed General Zhang Youxia from its Central Military Commission (CMC).
For anyone following Chinese politics,...
The Asian economic rebalancing
ASIA’S ECONOMIC growth can trace its origins to the period after the Second World War. It had been a time of peace, decolonization and...
How Trump destroyed the rules-based order
MANY ARE bemoaning the multilateral rules-based order. This system was predicated on the assumption that a weak country’s interests are just as valid as...
The Greenland dilemma
GREENLAND is proving to be a major source of friction between the United States and Europe.
Everyone knows why United States President Donald Trump...
The United States’ abduction of Maduro
IT HASN’T been a week and 2026 is off to a loud start. As of January 3, 2026, the United States had bombed Caracas...
2026, a more intense version of 2025
LAST WEEK, I wrote that “(2025) marks a threshold of a sort, one that could ripple for years to come.” I believe 2026 will...
2025 – a pivotal year
THE YEAR 2025 is pivotal for the world. It may not seem as such to individual countries, but the year marks a threshold of...
Imperialism will probably return
WE WON’T call it by the same name but Imperialism will probably return. It will return because the egalitarian post-war consensus that asserted that...
The Philippines as critical real estate
THE PHILIPPINES will play an important country in the coming bifurcated world. Regardless of how the future geopolitical contest plays out, the Philippines will...
UN is probably going to disappear
BACK IN my elementary schooldays, I remember flying the Honduras flag during the United Nations (UN) Day. We were told it was pretty important...