Tag: south china sea

The Philippines contributes nothing but its VICTIMHOOD to the South China Sea crisis

June 4, 2015 benign0 56 Comments

Read articles about the South China Sea conflict on foreign media sites like Bloomberg, TIME, CNN, the BBC, and even Singapore’s The Straits Times, and you will find the real major players in the flashpoint mentioned liberally — China, the United States, and Japan. Perhaps even Vietnam. What is notable about international media coverage of…

Development, Government, Politics

The trouble with #Filipinos is that they lack the will to WIN the Mindanao and South China Sea battles

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 benign0 19 Comments

The trouble with Filipinos is that they think that everyone they deal with is guided by “Christian values”. It is no surprise then that the Philippines fails in its efforts to get a solid footing in its management of two external threats currently menacing the homeland — China’s progressive military takeover of the South China…

Culture, Government, Society, The South

We Need to Wake Up for 2016

May 23, 2015 Grimwald 26 Comments

I’m not gonna mince words anymore. It’s time for me to be brutally frank. The immaturity of Filipinos as it is is probably one of the biggest factors that keep it in the dark about what’s really going on in the world around us. Remember my article about the immaturity of Filipinos? Well, I think…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Filipinos: Lost in a Web of Delusion

March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 Grimwald 12 Comments

In my first meeting with my counselor, I was asked to write about how I really felt about myself. She told me to be honest with what I wrote and that I should put in even the small details that have some significance to me. I had some problems with recounting everything that happened but…

Crime, Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Science, Society

Sorry, Joe. No more boom-boom in Manila and Olongapo City

October 29, 2014November 22, 2022 benign0 25 Comments

If I were a businessman of any sort in the Philippines, I’d be fuming. In most NORMAL countries, the arrival of shiploads of young, cashed-up, and physically vigorous American military personnel would be greeted with joy and eyes flashing with $$ signs. Not in the Philippines though. The other day, the United States aircraft carrier…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

Why Hong Kong’s #UmbrellaRevolution is unlikely to move Beijing

October 2, 2014 benign0 19 Comments

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has taken its all-too-familiar stand on the issue of unrest in Hong Kong remaining consistent with its standard approach to managing and negotiating issues of sovereignity over its territories. “I’d like to reiterate that Hong Kong is a special administrative region (SAR) of China, and Hong Kong affairs fall…

Economy, Government, Politics

Why the good guys need to keep it real when dealing with Russia and China

March 12, 2014March 12, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

One thing about all the conflicts going on around the world today is that their underlying causes haven’t changed. War has always been all about resources — access to and control over it. This is essentially what aspirations to national “independence” are all about. They start with “oppressed” people complaining about being sick and tired…

Economy, Politics, Society

Moving Away from the ASEAN is a Costly Mistake

February 22, 2013February 23, 2013 BenK 5 Comments

(As published in The Manila Times, Thursday, February 21) One of the key reasons Southeast Asia is the worldâ€™s most economically-promising region is the strength and stability of the regional multilateral partnership, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). With the debatable exception of the European Union, no other multinational cooperative in the world performs…

Economy, Money Talks, Politics