Op-Ed Blog
At last, with Duterte, we're no longer the US lackey in Asia
The big message that the Philippines has sent to the world during its hosting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit last week was as historic as can be in terms of our foreign policy: We are no longer the Americans' lackey in this part of the world, not its proxy in Asean, which the US secretly founded as the Asian equivalent of NATO to counter communist China.
Macron's victory in France and future of Sino-France relations
Emmanuel Macron won France's presidential race on Sunday. The 39 year old has never held elected office. He will also be the youngest president of France's Fifth Republic which was introduced on October 5, 1958.
Belt & Road Forum, a global dialogic mechanism for worldwide connectivity
The Belt & Road Forum in Beijing China, which is scheduled to take place on May 14 and 15, 2017, would symbolize the initial formation of a global dialogic platform on the part of the Chinese Government together with the stakeholders and interested parties to deepen cooperation on the Belt & Road Initiative.
China's C919 maiden flight heralds a new era in global aviation market
Analysts say that the C919's successful test flight represents China's first major step towards thwarting the global duopoly of Boeing 737 made in the United States and Airbus A320 made in Europe. The flight makes China to join the ranks of the few nations that have developed homegrown large airliners: the U.S., Russia, Brazil, Canada, the U.K., France and Germany.
Belt & Road Summit takes stock, looks to future
China is stepping up its status as a globalization activist with its biggest diplomatic event of year, the One Belt, One Road Summit in Beijing on May 14 and 15. The OBOR concept has been developing over the past three years and this first phase of its iteration is, in a sense, being signaled by the summit.
Beijing ready to play host to Belt & Road Summit
May 14 -15, this year marks the date for the Belt and Road Summit which is set to be hosted in Beijing. This year's summit is undoubtedly going to be the largest economic and trade event hosted in China for the year 2017.
The B&R Energy Cooperation and its Geo-economic Implications
Energy is one of the priorities of the B&R Initiative.
China's increasing military power based on innovation
China's first homemade aircraft carrier hit the water. The construction of the type 001A ship began in 2013 and almost finished four years later in the Dalian shipyard. This is the country's second aircraft carrier following the acquisition of Liaoning which had been built in Ukraine.
Editorial: Korean Peninsula dilemma needs more reason less impulse
The situation on the Korean peninsula remains at a dangerous level, as the confrontation between the United States and North Korea continues to escalate. With tensions heightening towards a possible breaking point, China has once again stepped forward to help cool down the heat.
The Belt and Road & Sino-Indian Relation
As one of the most important bilateral relations in the world, Sino-Indian relation is often described as "the Dragon and the Elephant" by the media; especially after "the Belt and Road" is proposed, Sino-Indian relation seems mystified.
Will May end in June?
The British general election campaign is under way after the House of Commons backed Prime Minister Theresa May's unexpected call for an early election on June 8.
India should embrace China's Belt & Road Initiative for win-win development
In his keynote speech at the opening session of the 47th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos on January 17 this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China will host the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) in Beijing this May to brainstorm about interconnected development.
The off grid revolution
Combined with the OBOR initiative, off grid technologies can work in tandem and synchronicity with the project and usher in a new and better way of living to the regions that have yet to make that leap into the modern age.
Syria attack dashes hopes to resume US-Russia dialogue
Amid increasing tensions between the U.S. and Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Moscow on April 12 to discuss bilateral relations and the conflict in Syria. Tillerson repeatedly suggested Russia to break with Bashar Assad and realign with the West.
Xi-Trump summit sets the tone for future relationship between China and US
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Donald Trump finally met on April 6 and 7 in a highly-anticipated summit at Trump's Spanish-style Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida to facilitate a constructive and productive relationship between the two countries.
The Xi-Trump summit is only the beginning of their direct meetings
The meeting between the presidents of China and the US is perhaps the most important one at the international level as they represent the two most powerful countries in the world.
The presidential summit aims to boost bilateral trade relations
The Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Donald Trump wrapped up a two-day presidential summit in Mar-a-Lago estate by announcing a 100-day plan to improve strained trade ties and boost cooperation between the two competing nations.
Thanks to China, Duterte may truly lay claim to greatness
Blasted by international media and damned by human rights advocates for alleged extrajudicial killings in the signature illegal drugs war early in his administration, President Rodrigo Duterte suddenly finds his hands full with reasons to boast he is a lot better than just being able to kill drug addicts and drug pushers sans due process.
Panatag Shoal
When the Philippines opted to forego the decision of the Permanent Arbitration Court sustaining our claim over some of the islands in the South China Sea in July 2016, it did not specifically include the Panatag or Scarborough Shoal, which our local fishermen called Bajo de Masinloc. What President Duterte did was to implement the Chinese approach of seeking a win-win solution to the problem.
The Benham rise issue
There are those who want to assert our sovereignty over our exclusive economic zones handed to us by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). They want to confront the alleged Chinese intruders who have been loitering around the area and are putting up structures in the same. This has been denied by the Chinese.