Over the past several months, the Philippine government has revisited the country’s foreign policy and made a distinctive shift in the country’s ties with China and the United States. The government’s changes require the Philippines’ policymakers and foreign policy thinkers to continuously deepen our understanding of the strategic environment and the potentials and pitfalls of… Read More

As the Philippine digital financial services arena is in a breakout stage, it is imperative that new technologies must be utilized in the hope to spur financial inclusion, ultimately benefiting Filipino consumers. Critical to delivering these benefits is the public’s trust of IT cloud services and level of cybersecurity that must be deployed by financial… Read More

Lysander Castillo, Stratbase ADRi Environment Fellow and Philippine Business for Environmental Stewardship (PBEST) Secretary-General The task of managing the environment is complex, no matter where you are in the world. The manager must balance the protection of the physical environment with the welfare of people who live off the land. After all, environmental pressures are… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies The Philippines is putting to action new partners in national security. Last Wednesday, President Duterte said he had sought China’s assistance in patrolling regional waters. A day later, he reaffirmed his intention to buy weapons from Russia, specifically precision-guided munitions or “smart… Read More

Prof. Renato de Castro, Stratbase ADRi Trustee  Throughout his second term, then US President Barack Obama made certain that the Asia-Pacific region served as the focal point of US strategic and diplomatic attention, as he built up American forward-deployed forces in the Western Pacific, strengthened bilateral alliances, forged new security partnerships with a number of… Read More

In December of last year, the Stratbase Albert del Rosario Institute (ADRi) and Pulse Asia worked to measure the public’s receptiveness to the country’s foreign policy shift. In its nationally representative survey, the Pulse Asia team asked Filipinos about the government’s approach to the West Philippine Sea and about the Philippines’ relationships with the United… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies President Duterte’s honeymoon period represents an adventurous timeline in Philippine politics. It has been animated by policy paradoxes, the war on drugs, and a shift in foreign policy, and accompanied by criticisms from different directions, political squabbling, and, most of all, his… Read More