Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI) is expected to be a game changer not only for the Philippines, but for the rest of the world in the next decade. China is expected to invest up to $5 trillion in transcontinental infrastructure projects covering as many as 64… Read More

Weslene Uy, Senior Economic Research Analyst of the Stratbase ADR Institute When President Rodrigo Duterte came back from his state visit to China in October 2016, his Cabinet members touted the US$ 24 billion in investment and credit line pledges that they have supposedly secured from their Chinese counterparts. A few days after their visit,… Read More

Stratbase ADR Institute hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “The 21st Century Silk Road: Perils and Opportunities of China’s Belt and Road Initiative” on June 20, 2018 in Makati City. The roundtable discussion started with the presentation of Richard Heydarian’s Special Study with the same title. The Special Study provides analyses on how China’s Belt and… Read More

Earlier this month, Dindo Manhit (Stratbase Group CEO and Managing Director and Stratbase ADRi President) and Arpee Manhit (Stratbase Group COO and Philippine Trade Foundation Inc. Executive Director) led the Philippines Inc. Eminent Persons Group (EPG) in a business mission to Washington DC and support Philippine Ambassador to the United States of America Babe Romualdez’s… Read More

Amb. Albert del Rosario, Chairman of the Stratbase ADRi, Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Philippine Ambassador to the United States We had read with a heavy heart the interview of Sec. Delfin Lorenzana in which he declared “President Duterte was handling the Philippine maritime row in the South China Sea very well” while, insisting… Read More

Stratbase ADR Institute hosted a presentation of Dr. Francisco A. Magno’s Special Study entitled: “Crafting an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Policy in the Philippines” to be held yesterday in Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Dr. Magno defined EPR, and examined the feasibility of its adoption in the Philippines as means to emphasize the need for additional… Read More

Claudette Guevara, Deputy Executive Director for Programs of the Stratbase ADR Institute The Shangri-La Dialogue is an annual intergovernmental defense forum hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), an independent think tank, and attended by ministers and delegates from over 50 countries. It aims to “buil[d] confidence and foster… practical security cooperation, by… Read More