Category: Headsight
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Anti-EDCA Bases, Anti-Proxy War; Anti-NATO Sea Patrols Forum Statement
04 March 2023OPENING STATEMENTBy: Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy Friends and colleagues!Our dear media friendsLadies and gentlemen!Good morning! I would like to express my sincere opposition to the militarization of the Philippines through the full implementation of EDCA, for the wills and caprices of the United States together with its allies in the Asia Pacific…
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Philippines: Intriguing Supreme Court Ruling on JMSU, A Coincidence?
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy The recent ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) on the “Joint Marine Seismic Understanding (JMSU) Among the Philippines, Vietnamese, and Chinese Oil Firms” is quite intriguing. It came a few days after the visit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to China, where one of the landmark gains of the said…
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Philippines President Marcos’s State Visit to China: Economic & Political Gains
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy The renaissance of the friendly and good bilateral relations between the Philippines and China despite existing differences is one of the legacies of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration that yielded tangible and concrete benefits for both countries and their peoples. The Philippines-China bilateral relations have not only improved under the Duterte…
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Implications of US VP Kamala Harris Visit to Palawan
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy The United States (US) Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit the Philippines from 20 November (Sunday) to November 22 (Tuesday), 2022. Thus far, Harris will be the highest-ranking US official of the Biden administration to pay a visit to the Philippines. I guess such a visit from the…
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Five More EDCA (US) Military Bases: Implications on the Peace & Security of the Philippines & the Asia Pacific Region?
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy A changing and evolving global order from a unipolar world to a multipolar one is fast approaching and forthcoming. The unipolar world that was predominantly unchallengedly led by the United States (US) for several decades is becoming a thing of the past every passing day. The rise of new centers…
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The South China Sea as a Zone of Peace and Prosperity: Low Politics vs. High Politics
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy South China Sea (SCS) is one of the most in-demand waterways in the world. Aside from the fact that it is a sensitive topic, for the most part, it is a disputed area involving multiple countries like China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan, China with multiple…
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Naivety or Subservience?
by Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy To justify the pursuance and accordingly strengthening commitments between the Philippines and the US under the MDT using the “China Threat Rhetoric” over the disputed South China Sea (SCS) and the Taiwan question is deceptive, misguided, and misleading. It can be recalled that last Friday (30 September 2022), the…
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PH-US Relations Amid Geopolitical Realities and Challenges Under a Marcos Jr. Presidency
by Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy Two of the many essential questions in Philippine foreign policy that have been consistently asked by Filipinos and people in the foreign policy circle ever since the Philippines received its independence from the United States (U.S.) in 1946 are, “are Filipinos better off with the Americans, or without them?” In a…
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Philippines: Time to Ratify RCEP
by Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy Among the 15 member-states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), only the Philippines has not ratified the biggest trade deal in history and across the globe. The most recent addition to RCEP is Indonesia. Even Myanmar had already sent its instrument of ratification to the ASEAN secretariat around September of…
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Time for the Philippines to Change Approach in Settling Differences with China over the Disputed South China Sea
by Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy I agree with Senator Imee Marcos, chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when she said in a senate hearing last Thursday (8 September 2022) that probably bombarding China with protests is not a good strategy since, as Asians, their “tendency is anti-confrontational.” She is right on point in this regard. In…
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Assessing Philippines’ Position on Taiwan Issue, not Joining ICC and their Impacts on the Philippines Statement
by Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy A. On the Taiwan Issue The rising tension between the US and China due to US HOR Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan despite China’s expressed opposition is a provocation vis-à-vis China in the strongest sense. The visit of Pelosi to Taiwan has challenged the bottom line and…
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US Strategic Ambiguity Over the Taiwan Issues Is One Huge Thorn in China-US Relations
By: Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy I was interviewed on Thursday (04 August 2022) by a foreign media network on the issues surrounding the Taiwan Strait, the Reckless visit of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of US House of Representatives, and the intricacies of the Taiwan issue vis-à-vis China-US Relations. I am sharing the transcript of the said interview…