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  • 28 Apr 2023
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Marcos has turned the Philippines towards America – not without risks

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    An expanded US military presence will benefit efforts to stand up to China. But Filipinos are wary of the social cost.
  • 6 Apr 2023
    • China
    • India
    • Japan
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security

    China is its own worst enemy

    Daniel R. DePetris
    Xi’s belligerence prompts classic balancing, an alignment among smaller states that would alone struggle to compete.
  • 27 Mar 2023
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security

    Philippines: The best friend for AUKUS in Southeast Asia

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Manila has stood apart on Australia’s nuclear-powered subs deal as a sympathetic democracy seeking to balance China.
  • 15 Feb 2023
    • China – Belt and Road Initiative
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security
    • United States

    Reset in US–Philippines relations tells of yet another China fumble

    Makoi Popioco
    The 180-degree reversal in Manila’s foreign policy was a consequent evolution of the previous regime’ approach.
  • 22 Dec 2022
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Administration

    The Interpreter 2022: Your most-read articles

    The Interpreter
    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated the year. But readers also wanted to know all about Southeast Asia’s elections.  
  • 6 Dec 2022
    • Philippines
    • United States

    The US may force the Philippines’ (willing) hand

    Michael Beltran
    A visit by VP Kamala Harris has revitalised a military pact and shown how Bongbong Marcos views America’s regional role.
  • 4 Oct 2022
    • Philippines
    • Defence & Security

    Philippines’ subs: the AUKUS inspiration

    Chester Cabalza , Joshua Espeña
    Manila can make its mark in the Indo-Pacific by choosing its friends, and its maritime deterrents, strategically.
  • 25 Aug 2022
    • Asean
    • Philippines
    • Australia and Asia

    A new Marcos gets down to business

    Greg Earl
    After an easy election win, the Philippine president is facing challenges at home and abroad.
  • 16 Aug 2022
    • China
    • Philippines
    • Taiwan
    • United States

    What the Philippines has at stake in Taiwan

    Susannah Patton
    Strategic choices by Manila will matter to Washington and Beijing.
  • 9 Aug 2022
    • Philippines
    • Human rights

    ICC pushes probe on the Philippines’ drug war

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    President Marcos’ decision not to participate in an international investigation is a setback for human rights.
  • 26 Jul 2022
    • Philippines

    Bongbong Marcos tries the balancing act with Beijing and Washington

    Cherry Hitkari
    The new president might talk up China ties, but relations with the United States appear to be on the mend.
  • 9 Jun 2022
    • Russia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Philippines
    • Ukraine

    Thailand seeking to profit from a global food crisis

    Craig Keating
    The war in Ukraine has highlighted weaknesses in Thailand’s policymaking and prompted cartel behaviour … again.
  • 18 May 2022
    • Philippines

    Philippines: justice and accountability, post elections

    Priya Pillai
    Dealing with the deadly legacy of the Duterte and Marcos eras will become that much more complicated under “Bongbong”.
  • 13 May 2022
    • Philippines

    What a Marcos Jr presidency in the Philippines means for geopolitics

    Adele Webb
    A policy-free campaign in Asia’s oldest democracy results in a guessing game in the region for where next.
  • 12 Apr 2022
    • Maritime Security
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • Philippines
    • Malaysia

    China’s nine-dash line proves stranger than fiction

    Bec Strating
    How Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea have crept imperceptibly into global popular culture.
  • 5 Apr 2022
    • Philippines

    Bongbong Marcos closes in on the Philippines presidency

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    A significant polling lead for the late dictator’s son reveals a political resurrection and a fragile democracy.
  • 28 Mar 2022
    • Philippines

    How the Marcos family could rule again in the Philippines

    Adele Webb
    In a country where the average age is 25, has collective memory been washed of the nation’s iron-fisted kleptocrat?
  • 25 Mar 2022
    • South China Sea
    • Asean
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Vietnam
    • Philippines
    • Malaysia

    Stiffening the ASEAN spine in the South China Sea

    Arrizal Jaknanihan
    Any “minilateral” grouping among Southeast Asian nations must be mindful of its internal contradictions.
  • 7 Feb 2022
    • Philippines

    Philippine elections and the politics behind it

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    Filipino voters go to the polls to choose who will govern them but not necessarily how they will be governed.
  • 24 Dec 2021
    • Philippines

    Filipino journalists can only take risks equal to their protections

    Makoi Popioco
    The reporters most vulnerable to life-threatening harm are either low-profile or based in provinces – especially both.
  • 10 Dec 2021
    • Philippines

    Duterte is playing both sides

    Michael Beltran
    Whether in relations with the United States or China, the Philippines remains a plaything in power politics.
  • 1 Dec 2021
    • Philippines

    Philippines: diagnosing the infodemic

    Imelda Deinla , Ronald U. Mendoza , Jurel Yap
    Fake news is harder to spot than ever. Young voters need to get savvy before the country’s 2022 election.
  • 2 Nov 2021
    • Migration
    • Philippines

    Filipino migrants are agents of change

    Mina Roces
    Stereotypes tell of disenfranchised labour. But the experience of people abroad can seed change at home, too.
  • 12 Oct 2021
    • Philippines

    Ressa’s prize for resilience underscores the need for press freedom

    Makoi Popioco
    Telling a story in the Philippines can be deadly. But if a right to know is to recover, this marks a start.
  • 8 Oct 2021
    • Philippines

    The Duterte double

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The spectacle featuring Duterte and his daughter in the next Philippines presidential election comes as no surprise.
  • 24 Aug 2021
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Philippines

    Duterte’s back-down on US forces in Philippines

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    After several threats to scrap the agreement giving US troops a legal basis in the country, challenges are lingering.
  • 21 Jul 2021
    • Philippines

    The politics of PacMan

    Michael Beltran
    Manny Pacquiao is famously conservative. By turning on Rodrigo Duterte, the boxer-senator wants to deliver a knock-out.
  • 12 Jul 2021
    • South China Sea
    • China
    • Philippines
    • International law

    Whatever happened to the South China Sea ruling?

    Pratik Jakhar
    Five years ago the Philippines largely squandered a crucial legal win. But it’s not too late to marshal support.
  • 1 Jul 2021
    • Philippines

    Philippines: Aquino’s death marks another democratic turning point

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The passing of the former president – and scion of political heroes – could remind people of the power of their choice.
  • 28 May 2021
    • Philippines

    How strong is Duterte the strongman?

    Michael Beltran
    Entering his last year in office, the Philippine president’s campaign promises ring hollow. The question is what’s next.
  • 21 May 2021
    • Philippines

    Duterte the defier

    Malcolm Cook
    From “beyond compromise” to “just a piece of paper” – the Philippine president jettisons the West Philippine Sea claim.
  • 6 May 2021
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus

    Philippines community pantries give help – and send a message

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    Filipinos are putting the Duterte administration on notice that its efforts to help during the pandemic fall short.
  • 22 Mar 2021
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus

    Lockdown déjà vu in the Philippines

    Michael Beltran
    With Covid cases rising, the Duterte administration keeps doing the same thing but somehow expects a different result.
  • 26 Feb 2021
    • Philippines

    A Duterte dynasty?

    Michael Beltran
    A campaign by the daughter of the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte hovers somewhere between rumour and reality.
  • 3 Dec 2020
    • Philippines
    • Human rights

    In the Philippines, a label can take your life

    Michael Beltran
    Accusation as a communist – “red-tagging” – is a potential death sentence, which doesn’t stop some from using it.
  • 23 Oct 2020
    • South China Sea
    • Philippines

    Reading between the lines: Duterte’s careful South China Sea speech

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    The President of the Philippines may stump up with more nationalist rhetoric, but his true message to Beijing is plain.
  • 15 Oct 2020
    • Philippines
    • Human rights

    If Duterte likes his human rights record, he can let others look

    Shannon Maree Torrens
    An international investigation is the best way to address concern about the “war on drugs” in the Philippines.
  • 30 Sep 2020
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus
    • Human rights

    Duterte’s vaccine promise is a political placebo

    Michael Beltran
    The Philippine president has pinned hopes on a miracle solution to the Covid crisis while gutting effective responses.
  • 25 Aug 2020
    • Philippines
    • Human rights

    The killings in the Philippines grow more brazen

    Nick Aspinwall
    The recent murder of a well-known activist signals a turning point in the campaign to eliminate dissent.
  • 13 Aug 2020
    • Philippines

    The myth of Rodrigo Duterte’s “independent” foreign policy

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    By lashing the United States and drawing closer to China, the Philippines president has undermined his own goals.
  • 7 Aug 2020
    • Philippines

    In the Philippines, a political dance around constitutional change

    Michael Beltran
    Quite literally a cha-cha.
  • 13 Jul 2020
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus

    Philippines government driving jeepneys off the road

    Michael Beltran
    A modernisation plan and now Covid-19 threaten a vivid cultural symbol and the livelihoods that go with it.
  • 3 Jul 2020
    • Australia
    • Myanmar
    • Cambodia
    • Indonesia
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Philippines
    • Southeast Asia
    • Coronavirus
    • Human rights

    Southeast Asian democracies in declining health amid Covid-19

    Melissa Crouch
    An illiberal turn across the region has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Australia should take note.
  • 6 May 2020
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus

    Philippines: Bangsamoro, between conflict and Covid-19

    Georgi Engelbrecht
    A year after its creation, the autonomous region faces the threat of a pandemic, on top of lingering fractures.
  • 24 Mar 2020
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus

    Philippines: Covid-19 will devastate the poor

    Sheila Coronel
    The pandemic threatens to break the already frayed fabric of communities that had not yet recovered from the drug war.
  • 16 Mar 2020
    • Australia
    • Philippines

    Australia-Philippines: Prolonged partners

    Lucy West , Dan Halvorson
    Manila’s termination of defence ties with Washington will have a geopolitical cost, but Canberra has history on side.
  • 6 Mar 2020
    • Philippines

    Philippines: When democracies hit midlife crisis

    Nicole Curato
    The Philippines’ democracy turned 34 last week. Will it continue to flirt with authoritarian fantasies?
  • 18 Feb 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • Philippines

    Pushing the Philippines‑US alliance over the cliff

    Jay Batongbacal
    Trump may have shrugged, yet Duterte’s move marks a serious blow to US power and the maritime order in Southeast Asia.
  • 17 Feb 2020
    • Philippines
    • Coronavirus

    The politics of racism as the Philippines struggles with coronavirus

    Erin Cook
    Rodrigo Duterte and his backers appears to be exploiting the public health crisis to wedge opponents at home.
  • 7 Jan 2020
    • Philippines

    Martial law is lifted, but “state of emergency” persists in Mindanao

    Nick Aspinwall
    The role of the military on the strife-torn island isn’t about to change – and will continue to ensnare legal activists.
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