Category: Asian Century
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Bountiful Good News from China
By Herman Tiu Laurel Waking up to the news that China is already starting to ease its zero-Covid policy with new evolving and dynamic zero-Covid protocols as well as roll-out of the fourth vaccine for the elderly and vulnerable brightened the start of the day. The world has been waiting for this moment when China…
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US-Amboys seeking blood in SCS
By Herman Tiu Laurel There is new spate of anti-China diatribes from the usual Amboy (American boys) sources. First came Andrew Marasigan’s hilarious “Are China’s glory days coming to an end?” in Manny Pangilinan’s Business World. Then came the Inquirer’s “China taking positions to deny PH access to key WPS areas.” Its FB-posted…
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China: Post-pandemic, Post-Ukraine War Mecca
By Herman Tiu Laurel I can predict that the new geoeconomic and geopolitical Mecca of the world in the post-pandemic and post-Ukraine War period will be Beijing, and it’s already begun. Let’s take a look t the procession of visits from the West to China and President Xi Jinping: German Chancellor Olaf…
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U.S. futile destabilizations
By Herman Tiu Laurel The U.S. has been engaged in constant destabilizations of what they perceive as non-compliant, independent, sovereign or rival and competitive nations, regions and major countries using what they detect as possible popular issues and with timely triggering events that they can use as a fuse to spread staged protests into…
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Xi’s Unity and Cooperation wins the Asian Moment
By Herman Tiu Laurel The last of three major global conferences this November 2022 affecting the peace, progress and prosperity of Mankind, the Asia-Pacific Economic Community (APEC) meeting in Cambodia just ended on the 19th of the month. This followed the conclusion of the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia on November 16th and…
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US spin leads PHL by the nose, again!
By Herman Tiu Laurel Some space debris believed to be from a Chinese rocket splashed back down to earth, onto the 3.5-square kilometers South China Sea. The Western media has made a lot of noise about China’s space exploration projects but these efforts are recognized by the United Nations as part of Mankind’s “peaceful…
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We Are Weak Because We Settle for Scraps
By Herman Tiu Laurel Just a week ago, Department of National Defense OIC and undersecretary Jose Faustino (ret. Army general) speaking to a congressional hearing admitted that the Philippines’ “military capability is one of the weakest in the region”. This was an answer to the solons’ query why the Philippines failed to “prevent China…
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Kamala visit: America’s flatus
By Herman Tiu Laurel U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting the Manila on November 20 for handshakes with President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, then heading to Puerto Princesa, Palawan on November 22 to go onboard BRP Teresa Magbanua (MRRV-9701) and be briefed about the Philippine Coast Guard’s maritime operations in…
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PH-China cooperation in the ‘Asian Moment’
By Herman Tiu Laurel The world’s attention is now focused on Asia as the rare convergence of several crucial regional and international activities pursuing the unity and welfare of mankind are convened in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia this November. Three major regional and international meetings of world leaders is being held in Asia…
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External powers drive the stake into SCS peace
By Herman Tiu Laurel The newspapers the past days carried the headline quote from President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. (PBBM) statement at the 17 East Asia Summit November 13, 2022 on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia that “Countries beyond Asia have stake in keeping SCS peace”. The statement I…
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Ramping Up EDCA Debate Is Hidden Agenda Behind Anti-China Rants
By Herman Tiu Laurel This writer received a call last November 2, 2022 at 5:30am from a well-known radio station seeking with urgency a phone patch interview. I had just awoken and wondered what on earth would be so urgent. Nonetheless, I acceded to the request after asking what the topic of the interview…
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The Philippine Case: Asia’s Challenges on the Path to Modernization
By Herman Tiu Laurel In the 1950s the Philippines was favored with advanced economic development from its special relationship with the United States of America, its former colonizer. As Filipinos loved to exclaim then, “the Philippines is second only to Japan”. Today one discovers that the Philippines is lagging among the top five…