Keynote Address of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore

Keynote Address of Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore 01 June 2018 Prime Minister ली सियन लूंग, Thank you for your friendship, your leadership of India-Singapore partnership and a better future for the region. Defence Ministers, Mr. जॉन चिपमैन, Dignitaries and Excellencies, Namaskar and a very good evening to all of… Read More

ADRi Occasional Paper: “Varieties of Capital: The Direction, Patterns, and Implications of Chinese Foreign Investments in the Philippines”

Alvin A. Camba is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He uses mixed-methods approaches to derive the determinants of [Chinese] foreign direct investment, the dynamics of elite competition, and the political-economic effects of capital mobility on the developing world. He has been awarded the Terence K. Hopkins Best Graduate Student Paper Award… Read More

The folly of appeasing China’s expansion into the South China Sea

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute On May 18, 2018, the People’s Liberation Army’s Air Force (PLAAF) announced that it had landed an H-6K bomber on one of its outposts in the South China Sea. Its official statement declared that the exercise—including takeoff… Read More

Time to make a stand

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute The Duterte administration’s policy of appeasement did not deter China’s military buildup in the South China Sea, including parts of the West Philippine Sea. The administration’s failure to take up the Philippines’ victory in the arbitral court against China’s nine-dash-line claims has allowed China to continue its… Read More