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Oct 5, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Jenny D Balboa |Shinji Takenaka
On 21 July 2024 the Philippines and China agreed on a ‘provisional arrangement’ that would allow the Philippines to deliver supplies to Filipino naval troops stationed at the BRP Sierra Madre. The temporary agreement was reached after the Chinese coast guard, armed with knives, guns and spears, attacked a small contingent of Philippine Navy boats on their way to resupply the beached BRP Sierra Madre.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Ashley J Tellis |Jenny D Balboa |Chhay Lin Lim
Philippine politics combines drama, comedy and tragedy. The political marriage between two powerful clans in the northern and southern Philippines resulted in the 2022 election of a former dictator’s son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, and a former president’s daughter, Sara Duterte, as president and vice president respectively. Yet this dynasty cartel or mega-dynasty is headed towards a split.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Ashley J Tellis |Jenny D Balboa |Masahiko Takeda |Alicia Garcia-Herrero
Ever since independence in 1947, India’s leaders imagined that the country would become a great power — it possessed a storied civilisation, a large landmass and population and epitomised a successful experiment in liberal democracy. But becoming a great power required that its large population become much more productive and the country at large approach the global technological frontier.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Jenny D Balboa |Chhay Lin Lim |Yasuo Takao |Cindy X. Zheng
The conflict between the Marcos and Duterte families in the Philippines has taken on a dark twist. At a rally in Davao City on 28 January 2024, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte called President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr a . Duterte’s son, Davao City Mayor Sebastian ‘Baste’ Duterte, while asking for Bongbong to resign called the president lazy and lacking in compassion.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
dailyguardian.com.ph | Jenny D Balboa
By Jenny BalboaAfter an almost seven-year imprisonment, former senator Leila De Lima was released on bail in November 2023. In her speech, she thanked the Marcos administration for respecting the rule of law. De Lima’s choice of words is not accidental. It was a loaded statement to fan the growing political wedge between the Marcos and the Duterte families – the UniTeam Alliance that won by a landslide in the 2022 Philippine elections.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Jenny D Balboa
After an almost seven-year imprisonment, former senator Leila De Lima was released on bail in November 2023. In her speech, she thanked the Marcos administration for respecting the rule of law. De Lima’s choice of words is not accidental. It was a loaded statement to fan the growing political wedge between the Marcos and the Duterte families – the UniTeam Alliance that won by a landslide in the 2022 Philippine elections.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
news.nestia.com | Jenny D Balboa
Author: Jenny Balboa, Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesAfter an almost seven-year imprisonment, former senator Leila De Lima was released on bail in November 2023. In her speech, she thanked the Marcos administration for respecting the rule of law. De Lima’s choice of words is not accidental. It was a loaded statement to fan the growing political wedge between the Marcos and the Duterte families — the UniTeam Alliance that won by a landslide in the 2022 Philippine elections. ……
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Jenny D Balboa |Allison Alexy |Yiping Huang |Emma Whitmyer
Author: Jenny Balboa, Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesAfter an almost seven-year imprisonment, former senator Leila De Lima was released on bail in November 2023. In her speech, she thanked the Marcos administration for respecting the rule of law. De Lima’s choice of words is not accidental. It was a loaded statement to fan the growing political wedge between the Marcos and the Duterte families — the UniTeam Alliance that won by a landslide in the 2022 Philippine elections.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
international.thenewslens.com | Jenny D Balboa
What you need to know China lost sight that the Philippines — like many ASEAN countries — is a post-colonial state, sensitive to the raw ambition of superpowers to dominate and bend them against their will. Beijing overlooked the determination of many domestic actors in these countries to defend their national interest.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
asiatimes.com | Jenny D Balboa |Shinji Takenaka
Despite careful words from Philippine officials, the latest US-Philippines Balikatan military exercise was a response to China’s increasing assertiveness in the South China Sea. China’s provocations had become indiscriminate — targeting both uniformed Filipino personnel and small-scale fisherfolk in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. China’s aggressive actions had become bolder, making it more difficult to turn a blind eye to the situation.
