Pax Silica and the Philippines
ON APRIL 16, 2026, the Philippines formally joined the American-led Pax Silica initiative, becoming the 13TH signatory in the AI and semiconductor coalition.
The...
Finding a niche in the New World
AFTER the Cold War, during America’s Unipolar Moment, the Philippines found its niche by attaching its economic development to labor exports, that is to...
After decoupling
ONE OF the most controversial theories in geopol social media today is that the United States, under Donald Trump, is attempting to decouple from...
After peace, the free for all
THE FALL of the post-war, rules-based order heralds the end of many delusions. But among the more persistent ones is the notion of a...
Why Iran?
WHEN Donald Trump first ran for United States president, one of his policies was to avoid the moralistic Forever Wars that had been the...
Our politicians don’t understand realpolitik
THE RECENT spat between senators Rodante Marcoleta and Francis Pangilinan over the finer details of the West Philippine Sea and our Exclusive Economic Zone...
The end of nuclear non-proliferation
LAST WEEK, the New Start Nuclear Proliferation treaty between Russia and the United States ended.
The Russians wanted to renew the treaty but the...
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...