We are pleased to share with you our Occasional Paper for May 2021 entitled, “Hanging in the Balance: Checking on Beijing’s Trillion-Dollar Unfulfilled Promise to the Philippines”, and authored by Atty. Terry Ridon, a Non-Resident Fellow of ADRi and Convenor of InfraWatch PH. Highly relevant to the current geopolitical maneuverings in the Indo-Pacific region, the… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute The complex geopolitical maneuverings in the Indo-Pacific region have altered the way we view security and economic development. National security can no longer be viewed solely from a military perspective, the same way economic development can’t be measured by numbers alone. Threats to security and development continue to emanate… Read More

Atty. Terry Ridon, Non-Resident Fellow of Stratbase ADR Institute and Convenor of InfraWatch PH Months into his presidency in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte announced a foreign policy pivot to Beijing, as he shored up to $24 billion (P1.2 trillion) in funding pledges from China. The initial list consisted of 26 big-ticket projects and was supposedly… Read More

Dr. Francisco Magno, Trustee and Convenor of the Right Governance and Open Governments Program, Stratbase ADR Institute In 2016, the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines declaring that the nine-dash line claim by China in the South China Sea is invalid and contravenes the United Nations… Read More

More than a year into this pandemic, the Philippines is again faced with another significant surge in COVID-19 cases. This surge no doubt has many concerned about the consequences for the national economy and the lives of millions of Filipinos. This resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the country, despite being home to one the longest… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute Maritime The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) origin could be traced back to October 2014 when President Xi Jinping, speaking before the Indonesian Parliament, proposed the formation of a China-ASEAN community with a common destiny to… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute Maritime Southeast Asia is located in an important crossroads between the Indian and Pacific Oceans near the center of a newly configured region called the Indo-Pacific.  The littoral states constituting this sub-region—the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore,… Read More