Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute China recently enacted an alarming law that authorizes its coast guard to demolish structures on features it claims, and use weapons against foreign vessels that “illegally” enter its territory. Concerns have been raised about how China may abuse the language of its domestically institutionalized and regulated law to justify… Read More

Terry Ridon, Non-Resident Fellow of the Stratbase ADR Institute and Convenor of InfraWatch PH In the digital innovation landscape, the Philippines stands at a road filled with stark irony: on one hand, some 73 million Filipinos are Internet users, with the World Bank noting that the Philippines is seen as a “potentially significant player” in… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute On Feb. 8, 2021, Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin revealed that the Philippines and the United States will meet in late February to iron out their differences over the 1999 Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute On Jan. 29, 2021, the Philippines filed a strongly worded diplomatic protest against China’s passage of a law authorizing the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) to use force against foreign vessels in the contested waters of the… Read More

Paco A. Pangalangan, Executive Director, Stratbase ADR Institute The National Economic and Development Authority recently presented four priority areas that it wanted the private sector to have more investments to help in the country’s economic recovery. These four areas were: health, food resilience, education continuity and digital transformation. The reason these are priority areas is… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute The national government’s fiscal program is ultimately expressed by the national budget, in this case, the 2021 General Appropriations Act. Under both boom and recession situations, budget discipline is expected in order to observe fiscal responsibility so that governments can manage economic cycles. A 2019 International Monetary Fund working… Read More

Edwin Santiago, Fellow and Member of the Editorial Board, Stratbase ADR Institute The government is trying to keep Filipinos alive and healthy and, at the same time, trying to demonstrate to the world the effectiveness and efficiency of its public health administration through COVID-19 numbers. Since the early days of the pandemic, they have stuck… Read More