Category: Asian Century
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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…
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GOCC 20-year gains “hocked,” privatized for Maharlika
By Herman Tiu Laurel President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. went to the Mecca of the global financial oligarchy in the hopes of raising investments for the development of the post-pandemic Philippines economy. Investments are being sought as borrowings have already gone sky high amounting to P 13.64-trillion pesos or $ 246.34-billion. This debt…
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What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
By Herman Tiu Laurel “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?” The question is appropriate when applied to the South China Sea contentions (the term “dispute” is already too loaded). Through the past ten years of going back and forth on the issue amongst contenders who claim dominance over…
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The Proxy War Plot and the SC
By Herman Tiu Laurel As I observe the reverberations from the Supreme Court’s controversial and suspiciously timed decision and announcement on the 2005 Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) case declaring the exploration joint venture unconstitutional, I thought of the dreams of economic development of our nation, how it would be sabotaged by this…
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Mindanao’s development dreams
By Herman Tiu Laurel As I observe the reverberations from the Supreme Court’s controversial and suspiciously timed decision and announcement on the 2005 Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) case declaring the exploration joint venture unconstitutional, I thought of the dreams of economic development of our nation and of Mindanao, how it would be…
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After state visit: Phil-China “Golden Age” glows
By Herman Tiu Laurel Barely a week has passed since the spectacular state visit of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr. into the open arms of China and the warm and brotherly handshake of President Xi Jinping. Yet the steady stream of good news from the “strongest partnership” of the two nations has become a…
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Marcos Jr and China: Walking The Talk
By Herman Tiu Laurel President BBM came home to a host of problems, very urgent problems. I won’t be surprised if the euphoria and promise of the successful state visit would quickly wear off and swiftly get lost in the chaos of the situation e faced having to apologize for the NAIA systems…
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US fake news surge again for PHL pols and media
By Herman Tiu Laurel Some other Filipinos may still be taken aback by the recent surge of US and Amboy (American Boys) fake news, “mal-contexted” info (i.e. deliberately taken-out-of-context news) and the likes in Philippine mainstream media, but I and the anti-imperialist, pro-Asian, pro-South or Third World communities I am part of expect these cycles of…