Category: Asian Century
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US blocks China’s Ukraine peace deal
Zelensky is getting a second chance to end the carnage and raging inferno in Ukraine inflicted by the materially and morally superior Russian forces. His first chance was April 2022 when Turkey hosted peace talks which, however, Britain blocked in behalf of the U.S. Now that China’s President Xi Jinping is arranging new ceasefire talks…
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China’s rise endures, US on the brink
By Herman Tiu Laurel The world did not have to wait long to see the positive results of China’s fast paced lifting of its Covid 19 lockdown that started January 2023. By early March it was already clear that the virility of the pandemic virus has so weakened that it is now no different…
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Fil-Am War II: the Final Showdown
By Herman Tiu Laurel During his TV show with Apollo Quiboloy on the SMNI channel, former President Rodrigo R. Duterte uttered his first words on the burning issue of U.S. EDCA military bases in the Philippines. Finally! The country had been waiting for the former president to break his polite silence on this burning…
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Rage Against EDCA, Proxy War, US-PHIL Joint Sea Patrols
By Herman Tiu Laurel March 4, 2023 at Kamuning Forum At the start of February of 2023 the Filipino nation was shocked by the announcement of the BBM government that the expansion of the U.S. EDCA bases would be pursued, contrary to expectations from the records of actions and statements of BBM the past…
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The ‘spy balloon’ saga bursts
By Herman Tiu Laurel The NPR (National Public Radio) is a quasi-autonomous, government-funded nonprofit media outlet created by the US federal government. On its Feb. 16 headline blared ‘Biden says the 3 aerial objects shot down were not Chinese spy balloons’… President Joe Biden will soon speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the…
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BBM risks China’s ire, Economic rebound
By Herman Tiu Laurel So, the Ayungin Shoal-BRP Sierra Madre resupply run and “military laser” pointing from a Chinese Coast Guard ship at a Philippine Cost Guard ship was made a sensational issue, with the pitiful Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Armand Balilo lying that the Chinese “violated international law” by the “offensive” and “unsafe”…
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The War vs. War, a War vs. US wars
By Herman Tiu Laurel A huge anti-War protest rally is expected to be held in Washington this Sunday February 17, 2023 on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President’s Day Weekend, it’s dubbed “Rage Against the War Machine!” Speakers at the event are now famous anti-US wars dissenters Jimmie Dore, Medea Benjamin, Scott…
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How low can BBM go? Too low!
By Herman Tiu Laurel How often have we heard that line about the Filipino being able to bend like the bamboo? Some are raising that adage again to justify the bowing of President Bongbong Marcos, Jr. to the diktats of the Americans imposing the unconstitutional and oppressive expanded EDCA bases and the US-PHIL joint…
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Averting the “Ukraine in the Philippines” scenario
By Herman Tiu Laurel February 6, 2023 Media Forum with ACPSSII, PM, others. The real intention behind the now expanded 9 US bases in the Philippines is exposed in the recent statement of the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) prime mover of the US-Philippines defense cooperation Gregory Poling, “… access to…
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Cowards in the face of American diktats
By Herman Tiu Laurel I’ll start with some information that may seem off-topic but actually, enormously relevant to what we will discuss. It’s a news report in The Guardian of December 29, 2006 whose title is “For the British Treasury, only today is the war over.” Did anyone reading this ever imagine that it…
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Neutrality stokes war, Peace Partisanship Imperative
By Herman Tiu Laurel The combined “Deep State” of the United States, Britain and its “allies” are pushing the irredeemable destruction of European, particularly German, relations with Russia, using every means of war and cynically and unforgivably, resurrecting Western European memories of WWII Nazi anti-Slavic racism to bait Russia’s rage. The Russian…
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US 2023 provocation agenda
By Herman Tiu Laurel Several news items from the U.S. and Western media came off the press this past week, it gives an indication of the provocations the U.S. is plotting again this 2023 to stir tension in the Asia-Pacific region and provoke China and the countries of Asia and ASEAN. The first…