Chinese President Xi Jinping told the closing ceremony of the BRICS Summit 2026 in India that the organization that he founded together with 10 other state leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa is now on the right path in writing a “new chapter of strength through unity of the Global South.”


Trump is ‘utak pulbura’ while Xi is for peace

If you are here in the Philippines, or if you are a Filipino living in another part of the globe but with an internet connection, it would be hard not to notice how the China issue has escalated during the past couple of days.


Marcos himself should act

United States President Donald Trump and his treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, are now working in tandem trying to squeeze Iran`s economy and render that country an outcast in the global economic community.

Economic D-Day

When you are your country’s minister of defense, or any high official of the government attending an international forum, expect that from among the audience there are people who espouse ideas and advocacies directly opposed to yours.


Baldness of logic, hollow of good sense

A steel plant with Chinese investments and is productively and peacefully doing business inside an economic zone that is under the supervision of the Department of National Defense )DND) would sooner or later be the focus of Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro`s spiteful ire.

Tit for tat:  China can play the game, too

Many political and social analysts all over the world have recognized the practical importance of the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), the fourth pillar of the overarching operational framework connecting China’s four major global proposals.


Global Governance Initiative

The recent meeting of the defense ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) provided another international stage for defense secretary
Gibo Teodoro to gloat on his newfound role as de facto architect of Philippine foreign policy.


Foreign policy:  BBM’s or Gibo’s turf?

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) grew from a group of five Eurasian countries which, in 1996, recognized the need for a dynamic regional organization that promotes their shared political, economic, and security concerns.


The SCO is all about global peace

One indication that the Philippine society is exasperated and desensitized in the face of the highly toxic state of local politics and the economy is when the business community talks as one in urging the government to do what is right, and immediately.

The business community speaks

The United Nations (UN) was formed by the international community in the aftermath of World War 2.  The victors in that war wanted to ensure that the losers would never again resort to militarism, fascism, and the use of force in pursuing their economic and political ambitions.

In other words, no more aggression.


United Nations and the enemy states

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG Column Diego Cagahastian and Raffy Sarnate

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG

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