No military pivot to China
"Duterte would not have been able to pull it off." Since the end of World War II only two ...
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A train-wreck foreign policy
As much as I would like to get out of the way of a careening train wreck of a Philippine ...
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Perspectives on a principled Philippine foreign policy
By Albert F. Del Rosario This speech was delivered by the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs on October 18, 2016 ...
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‘Du30 drops the ball’
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte may have dropped the ball in insisting that Philippine foreign policy pivot to China and is methodically ...
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PH to US: Show respect
FOREIGN Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. told US officials in Washington that Filipinos “are no longer the little brown brothers of ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.