Category: ACJ Global Radar Scan
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Grayzone or Twilight Zone?
The “Chinese Maritime Militia” and “Grayzone” scaremongering has been the top stories of the mainstream media the past two weeks, but it’s now subsiding again with none of the allegations of Chinese harassment substantiated. This is the cycle every three months or so for the past ten years. In fact, when cornered in a…
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Roque joins Fil-AM War II
By Herman Tiu Laurel On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 I received a TikTok post of an SMNI video clip of the network’s latest Harry Roque interview where the former Duterte spokesperson said that the U.S. EDCA Bases in the Philippines will serve as magnets for China’s retaliation or pre-emptive strikes at any moment that…
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The U.S. as the moth to the fire
The United States is sending its Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on an Asian tour this first week of August, taking off on July 31 with a six-member delegation including the heads of the House foreign affairs and armed services committees. I have to say that it is the U.S. sending the delegation…
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Sri Lanka’s savior: China
The July anti-China propaganda campaign of the shrinking anti-China elements in Philippine politics and mainstream/social media has waned to pfft again this month with the “debt trap” and “high interest” allegation against China’s loans to the Philippines collapsing. In fact, the thinking public as a result has been enlightened on the deliberate mis-representation of…
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Pernicious Pernia’s Perfidy
The week July 20, 2022 to July 26, 2022 saw the last stretch of the anti-China disinformation campaign of the Amboy press and media that began with the deliberate MSM (mainstream media) mis-reporting of and by the Department of Transportation (DoTr) Undersecretary Cesar Chavez deliberately or clumsy misstatement of China’s continuing and normal loan…
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US-China row ghost in SONA
The one-and-a-half hour SONA of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. (PBBM) was broad and comprehensive, but it avoided mentioning the two elephants in the room. The names of the two most powerful countries in today’s world, the United States of American (USA) and the People’s Republic of China (PROC) were not…
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The SONAs of the Marcoses; West’s Recession
Today is SONA day. It’s the 81st SONA that started in 1935 in the first SONA delivered by the first Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel. L. Quezon. The last was, of course, by the last President Rodrigo R. Duterte who outlined his wins and draws over the six years of his governance and some suggestions…
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BRICS Resurgence; US and Taiwan
First of all, we note the great resurgence of the BRICS partnership of the major developing countries under the chairmanship of China this year. Previously, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi had introduced the idea of the “BRICS plus” which is to open BRICS to more developing countries after the over a decade long evolution…