U.S. and China Trade Barbs Over South China Sea

China's embassy in Manila accused the United States on Tuesday of driving a wedge between the Philippines and Beijing, deploring Washington's "unfounded accusations" that it said sought to stir up…

Why Duterte Remains So Popular

Why did the Philippines, a seemingly stable electoral democracy, prove so vulnerable to Duterte’s strongman challenge? The 2016 election revealed that despite surface-level calm, asystemic crisis…

 Mark R. Thompson