How Philippines is Losing its Way
The ongoing political noise will not affect the performance of the economy, given the government's "sound and sustained" economic policies, the National Economic and...
From Dollar Monopoly to BRICS Diversification: An Update
In the past 15 years or so, BRICS have rapidly grown into a geoeconomic front of the Global South. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the...
US Presidential Race, Israel’s Iran reprisals and China
In the first week of October, the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris,said that Iran is the “obvious” answer when asked about the country she...
Israel’s Iran reprisal, Middle East destabilized
Early on Saturday, Israel hit Iran with a set of airstrikes, stating it was targeting military sites in retaliation for the 180 missiles that...
Disinformation Risk Threatening the Global Economy
The ongoing year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. On September 21, 1949 Mao Zedong announced to...
U.S. 2024 Election and the Way to a Calamitous Trade War
For months, the U.S. presidential race has been hyped by national and international media with its incessant hunger for the latest sound-bites, spiced with...
The Beijing Declaration: Quest for Middle East Peace after the Haniyeh Assassination
On July 23, 14 Palestinian factions including rivals Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their divisions and form an interim national unity government, thanks...
The secret US anti-vax scandal in Philippines is boiling
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US military launched a secret campaign to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation in the Philippines and several...
How the Secret US Anti-Vax Operation Disrupted Chinese Sinovac from the Philippines to Central Asia and the Middle East
According to a new Reuters investigation, the clandestine operation hit the Philippines which had been hit particularly hard by the virus. I should know....
Integrated Megapolises, Next Stage of Chinese Reforms
Last November, Chinese President Xi Jinping chaired a Shanghai symposium on advancing the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Half a decade...