Category: China and America
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US Grand Strategy to Stop China’s Rise
By: Victor N. Corpus Kishore Mahbubani, one of the most prominent geopolitical thinkers of our era, oftentimes quote Dr. Henry Kissinger that one of the strategic errors committed by the US is launching a confrontation with China with no strategic plan. I beg to disagree on this point. The US indeed has a grand strategy…
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AUKUS Impact on the Philippines and ASEAN
Will the Philippines be a factor for peace and prosperity for the region and the world, or a precursor for tension and the “war to end all wars…”? WATCH: SPEAKERS: Herman Tiu LaurelPhil-BRICS Director READ PAPER: https://asiancenturyph.com/2021/09/23/the-aukus-ruckus-and-locsin-fumble/ Bobby TuazonCENPEG Director Victor CorpusRetired Brigadier General, AFPREAD PAPER: https://asiancenturyph.com/2021/09/25/aukus-the-new-kid-on-the-block/ REACTORS Sen. Nikki CosetengSenate of the Philippines Atty.…
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Blinken Snub: US Losing ASEAN to China’s Panda Diplomacy?
By Herman Tiu Laurel A very significant event for global politics was scheduled on May 25, 2021. It was particularly significant for the Philippines where an existing clique expects the U.S. to return to the ASEAN region to restore its preeminence and preserve its old neo-colonial vassalage of the Philippines. This event was the first…
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Saving Lives vs Saber Rattling
By Herman Tiu Laurel Another 400,000 doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines from China are scheduled to arrive in Manila on April 11, 2021. With this, Sinovac deliveries since February 28, 2021 or in the past month-and-a-half, will total up to 2-million doses. Half of these are donations while the other half are the first million…
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US Defense Secretary Miller’s naughty US spy flights
The new Trump appointee US Defense Secretary Christopher Miller (doomed to be the shortest serving ever) was in the Philippines making a show of donating war equipment to the Philippines, ironically in the time when it is not needed as it is the time of the Covid pandemic when what we need are ventilators, protective…
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US spy planes: The monkey on our back
Herman Tiu Laurel / Phil-BRICS Strategic Studies / October 12, 2020 Little did the Philippines realize that its longtime and “traditional ally,” the United States of America, had all along been putting the safety of Philippine airlines and lives of Filipinos in peril over the seas of Asia, particularly in the China Sea and the Yellow…
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US faking military aircraft as civilian: A crime against humanity
Mauro Gia Samonte / Phil-BRICS Strategic Studies / October 10, 2020 SO, it’s not a civilian aircraft that has been observed rounding the southwestern coast of China a number of times recently but actually planes of the United States military on espionage missions. On September 16, spokesman Wang Wenbin of the Chinese foreign ministry claimed that…
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China recovers, West and minions mope
Herman Tiu Laurel / Phil-BRICS Strategic Studies / April 29, 2020 Last April 15, 2020, Kenneth Kang deputy director of the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told media that “News of the widespread re-opening of (Chinese) firms and the return of employees to work give us hope that we will…
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Permanent War vs. Prosperity
By Herman Tiu Laurel The World has just witnessed and trembled before the terrible prospect of global war triggered by the U.S. assassination of the Iranian military official and hero of many wars defending the people of Iran, Gen. Qassem Sulaimani the vanquisher of ISIS. Along with Gen. Soleimani in the same murder spree of…