Category: Asian Century
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US Decoupling from China unrealistic: Was it a Blink or a Wink?
As 2021 enters its beginning days the geopolitical and geo-economic analysts are all asking the major global question today: what the Biden administration’s party line is or will be the day after Trump (even if he has to be dragged out) leaves office and the new team takes over. In the past few…
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Pfizer mess: Duque stands tall
Thus far, DOH Secretary has been able to stand against an array of Pfizer pressure salesmen within our government bureaucracy. He has stood pat on the proper procedures for accepting a vaccine and signing a purchase contract. But the government salesmen of Pfizer didn’t want any of that. “What Pfizer wants, Pfizer should get pronto”…
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As Pfizer, Moderna lobbies increase decibels, FDA investigates US, UK reported allergies
Lacson, Leachon, Monsod, Hontiveros, Ambassador Babes Romualdez. Who else have joined or would like to join the bandwagon of fools who have attacked the Duterte government and DOH Secretary Duque over the supposedly “botched” contract with Pfizer to supply the Philippines with 10-million doses of vaccine for delivery in January 2021? The name of Dr. Anthony…
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US-led Vaccine propaganda
The media manipulation of the global discourse on the coronavirus vaccine started when Moderna in mid-2020 in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic and its massive publicity when joining the Nasdaq 100, its stock prices shooting up 9.3% in one morning. Its continuing propaganda offensive reached its apex on its claim in November, with…
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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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China condemns, West mutes Aussie atrocities, unabashed war crimes
Thirty-nine defenseless and innocent Afghans have been killed in blood curdling war crimes by Australian Special Forces from 2005 to 2016 in the US-NATO led war in Afghanistan. Civilians, including teenagers, have been tortured, their throats slit. Unarmed working farmers have been gunned down for no apparent reason. Spectacles of dead Afghan’s artificial legs have…
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Going ‘Bongkers’ for Pfizer vaccine?
The past two weeks has seen a massive promotional campaign for the Pfizer vaccine burst out from international and domestic mainstream media, highlighting its claim of 95% effectivity. Side-by-side with the Pfizer boosting news is another U.S. company Moderna boasting of its vaccine’s 94% effectivity with some report qualifying it with “may be”. Other countries…
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Why China’s Five-Year Plans work
China’s government Five-Year Plans are the most awaited, watched, analyzed and media-covered government plans in the world. It is without equal as the most commentated socio-economic-political development plan by economists, political scientists and global politicians. China and its plans, now being the largest economy in the world truly deserves this level of attention; but it…
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Without China, Trump failed, without China, Biden will fail
What Trump’s four years of trade and tech war with China proved and leaves no doubt about is: the U.S. cannot do and will not heal without cooperative relations with China. Trumps’ trade war that intensified in his last two years in office did not deliver a single promise made upon its launch: it has…
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Hontiveros should see a shrink as Senators vomit sinophobia!
Senator Riza Hontiveros is showing signs of schizophrenia, exhibiting symptoms including paranoia and delusions which has been clearly exhibited in several public displays during Senate hearings, reported and published in the broadcast and print media. Hontiveros has not been alone, she has been joined in by Dick Gordon with his “PLA hiding under the PRA…
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China’s inexorable rise: ‘Why can’t they admit reality?’
My title paraphrases the famous author of “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?” released in May 30, 2017 and becoming a globally celebrated book. Graham Allison’s article appeared in The National Interest last October 15, 2020, the American bimonthly conservative international affairs magazine published by the Center for the National Interest,…
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Xi Jinping’s Korean War speech warns the Americans: China will use war to prevent war
The West really turned its head east and widened its eyes and ears when last October 23, presiding over a major commemoration of the 70th anniversary of China’s entry into the Korean War or the “War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea,” President Xi Jinping spoke of the push of American forces back to the…