Cristina Chi – Philstar.com, June 17, 2024 MANILA, Philippines — A congressional probe is now being sought into the damages caused by the United States military’s secret campaign to reportedly incite fears of China-made vaccines among Filipinos at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — an operation believed to have been deadly in the vaccine-hesitant…
To reap the benefits of amicable relations with both China and the U.S., as the Philippines and many of its counterparts across Southeast Asia seek to do, says Anna Malindog-Uy, a geopolitical analyst at the Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies Institute in Manila, the Philippines must “prevent at all costs the possibility of becoming a pawn of any superpower to encircle another superpower.”
Agence France-Presse /June 13, 2021 NEW YORK — What if China were to cut off the United States and Europe from access to rare minerals that are essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines and drones? At a time of frequent geopolitical friction among those three powers, Washington and Brussels want to avoid this scenario by…
Fifty years ago, six students from Mindanao State University successfully hijacked a plane and brought it to China. By Justin Umali | May 11, 2021, Esquire Philippines online These days, it would be hard to believe that Fructuoso Chua, Jr. ever led an exciting life. A first glance shows nothing more than an…
Mario Alvaro Limos, Esquire Philippines, 29 April 2021 China was probably surprised when the Philippines unleashed a barrage of diplomatic protests from March to April when the former occupied Julian Felipe Reef. Imagine its surprise when the Philippines sent its most advanced warships to challenge its presence in the West Philippine Sea. China might have been…
Apr 14, 2021 Ralf Rivas MANILA, Philippines Eight business groups quote former Chinese statesman Deng Xiaoping, who urged the world over 4 decades ago to overthrow Beijing should it turn into a tyrant Filipino business leaders urged China to respect the Philippines’ sovereignty and refrain from becoming an “imperial power.” In a strongly worded joint…
By: Daphne Galvez – Reporter/INQUIRER.net / February 28, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines received its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines on Sunday, with the arrival of 600,000 doses of the vaccine made by China-based drugmaker Sinovac Biotech. The military aircraft from China carrying the Sinovac vaccine doses donated by the government of China touched…
By: Consuelo Marquez – Reporter / @CMarquezINQ INQUIRER.net / August 20, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is calling for the deportation of two Chinese men who allegedly owned the business establishment selling beauty products with an address of “Manila, province of China.” The mayor made the call after the city government discovered…