Change and Uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific – Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Australia and the Philippines Speech, check against delivery Manila, the Philippines 16 March 2017 Ambassador del Rosario, thank you for your very kind words. Secretary Andanar, dignitaries, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. I am absolutely delighted to be addressing an institute which bears the… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies Julie Bishop, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, landed in Manila last Thursday to make her case for a rules-based international order in the Asia Pacific, prompting an international observer to remark that Bishop “said what Manila needs to, but won’t.”… Read More

The Stratbase ADR Institute welcomed colleagues and friends to a lunch held yesterday featuring a keynote speech from Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP. Foreign Minister Bishop spoke on the topic ‘Change and Uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific – Strategic Challenges and Opportunities for Australia and the Philippines’.

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies Can the Philippines look to Australia for foreign policy inspiration? After the country netted headline-grabbing sums from the President’s trips to Beijing and Tokyo last October, the Philippines’ relationships with Japan and China have been top of mind topics when discussing our… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies The Philippines has consistently played an active role in the growth and development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), dating back to its birth in 1967. ASEAN has persisted through political and economic crises, from the damages of the Cold… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies Following the slew of hastily executed mining audits and subsequent suspensions and closures, half of the legitimate large-scale mining projects in the country—all backed by lawful contracts—are in danger of being scrapped, with all the dire economic consequences seemingly buried under an… Read More

The Stratbase ADR Institute and the Philippine Trade Foundation saluted the delegates attending “US-ASEAN Relations: Charting the Next 40 Years”, a conference held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, with the support of the US Department of State, in Manila. Stratbase ADRi and the Philippine Trade Foundation hosted the conference’s closing reception.