Western economists apply standard, knee-jerk free-market logic. For what? To predict an imminent "China collapse" which is repeated a hundred times, due to perceived “real estate crises, high debt, and low consumption”. They misread the state’s intervention strategy, missing how Beijing prioritizes production capacity and geopolitical leverage over short-term profit, choosing to subsidize unprofitable manufacturing sectors rather than artificially propping up consumer spending.

China, over the last few years, has taken tougher moves for the reunification with its island province, Taiwan. The province “separated” from the mainland when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang forces lost in the civil war in 1949.

Political conflicts and economic challenges continue to deepen this month in the Philippines under the Marcos Jr. administration. There is, of course, the political intramurals between the competing ruling cliques of the Dutertes and the Marcoses. This continues to unfold amid the ever-worsening economic conditions and growing questions over government accountability.

For decades, the feudal and despicable tribe of family dynasties like the Marcoses and Dutertes has dominated Philippine electoral politics. Their political rule has endured through the country’s systemic banes: Rulers are the harbingers of corruption. Their reign is a roadblock to solving deeply rooted class inequality, poverty, and social injustice.

The ASEAN's continuing claim to “centrality” in helping dene the region's security architecture faces two important contrasting developments in the region: a strongly consolidated political leadership in China under President Xi Jinping and the unilateralist, divisive leadership style of President Donald Trump that has upended many of the established practices of American foreign policy. A continuing crucial test of ASEAN's centrality lies in its ability to push through a binding Code of Conduc

QUEZON CITY — The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) expresses serious concern over President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive for the Office of the Solicitor General to seek reconsideration of the Supreme Court ruling striking down unconstitutional provisions involving the national budget. The Supreme Court declared the 2024 and 2025 General Appropriations Acts unconstitutional over congressional increases beyond the President’s recommended appropriations and also...