With the Ramadan War still raging and the world is getting mixed signals from both US President Donald Trump and the Iranian leadership  about possible ceasefire negotiations, small countries like the Philippines do not have many options.

Lazaro to talk with Iran’s Zadeh

The important task of formulating the Philippine foreign policy and adjusting it to conform with the changing times is better shared by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and his equally small-minded advisers to those who had been there and done that.

Retired diplomats push for balance

Several countries have supported the United States of America’s broad initiative to shore up its capability to secure its supply chains for artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor, not to mention rare earth production.

US grand plan on AI, semiconductors

Leyte’s erstwhile golden boy by virtue of his surname, Rep. Martin Romualdez, is on a warpath.

Martin, show ‘em the gates of Hell

The Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police, the Philippine Coast Guard, and all other agencies of government whose personnel are required to wear their uniforms have fastidious, rigid rules on the use of these uniforms and insignias.

Trinidad and his uniform

Martin Romualdez, the congressman representing Leyte’s First District, may be out of the loop now because another colleague is seated in his Speaker’s chair in the House of Representatives, but in reality he still wields considerable power on a national scale.

Why is NBI helping Martin Romualdez?

Habang patuloy na kumukulo ang conflict sa West Asia kung saan nagpapatayan ang Israel, Estados Unidos at Iran, kasama na ang Hezbollah sa Lebanon, ang Hamas sa Gaza at ang Houthis sa Yemen, at habang patuloy na pinakukulo ng  Stratbase Institute at ng mga Tarriela, Brawner, Carpio, Pangilinan at Hontiveros ang isyu sa South China Sea, si Ambassador Jing Quan ay busy naman sa mga bagay na produktibo at positibo.

Masipag na ambassador si Jing Quan 

Antonio Trillanes and Jay Tarriela have some fundamental characteristics in common which qualify them to be the present dispensation’s most ardent propagandists.

Trillanes and Tarriela:  Birds of a feather

The Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea has been a work in progress among the eleven-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China through the years.

Code of Conduct in the SCS

While the Philippines is desperately seeking all available solutions to the oil crisis, including President Bongbong Marcos’ move to repair our damaged relations with China in order to explore the idea of joint oil exploration in the South China Sea, and Mr. Ramon Ang’s successful purchase of 2.48 million barrels of crude oil from Russia, certain individuals are still pushing to drive a wedge between China and the Philippines.

Carpio, not the PHL, is ‘committing suicide’

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