What Foreign and Defence Policy Awaits Under a New Marcos Presidency ?
A post-Duterte presidency offers opportunities for policy shifts.
China’s Island Chain Strategy
For 3,000 years, China’s overall strategy was to defend against invaders from the West and the North, but to turn its back on the Pacific.
In the early 1990s, the Chief of China’s Naval Staff, Admiral Liu Huaqing, changed this almost overnight by advocating a complete turnaround in China’s military posture to take on the world’s only superpower, with a long-term naval armament programme.
Security, Defence and the Metaverse
How will the development of AI and the ‘metaverse’ impact security, defence and innovation ?
Japan and NATO’s converging strategic interests
Tsuruoka-sensei unpacks the background context of growing Japan-NATO relations, the 2022 Madrid Summit, the implications of deepening Japan-NATO engagement, and opportunities and roadblocks to increased Japan-NATO cooperation.
Why a Marcos Is Ruling the Philippines Again
This month political dynasty heir and TikTok star Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. brought his family back to power in the Philippines 36 years after his father was ousted in a public revolution.
The scramble for information control over Africa
Influence of disinformation in the media landscape in Africa.