Latest in ChinaThe closure of the Strait of Hormuz dealt a “double whammy” to Filipino farmers, driving up fertilizer prices on top of already elevated costs from the broader Iran conflict, Senate President Win Gatchalian said Saturday, warning that the agriculture sector has borne a disproportionate share of…
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has reaffirmed the Philippines’ adherence to the One China Policy and said the country will not be dragged into any conflict involving Taiwan — even as he warned that hostilities in the strait would directly affect northern Luzon, according to state-run Philippine…
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made a striking claim in a television interview: a reset of the Philippines’ ties with China was, in his words, “happening now.” Speaking to Bloomberg, he also said the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which prompted him to declare a national energy crisis after…
Tourists to Japan hit a record high for the month of December despite the number of visitors from China plunging 45% due to diplomatic tensions between the two Asian neighbours. Beijing in November urged its citizens not to travel to Japan, seeking to punish Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after she…
US President Donald Trump on Monday, December 15, signed an executive order declaring fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction,” dramatically expanding U.S. government authority to combat the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually. The unprecedented designation…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly released 29-page national security strategy placed China at the center of U.S. policy priorities for the coming years. While the document discussed tensions in the South China Sea and emphasized the need to maintain U.S. military dominance across the first…
When China invades Taiwan, it is expected to neutralize perceived adversarial forces in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and possibly as far as Guam and Hawaii through cyberattacks before going kinetic. It can’t be clearer than that. Time is short to get ready. The President himself has sounded the…
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