Headlines

Backlash rising to Marcos Jr’s pro-US policy pivot

MANILA – Following last month’s near-fatal showdown over the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, the Philippines and China have resumed diplomatic contacts in a bid to defuse dangerously rising tensions in the South China Sea. On July 2, at the latest round of the so-called Bilateral

China scrambling to unplug anti-Japan hate speech

Chinese social media platforms have shut down radical nationalist posts promoting hatred of Japan after a stabbing attack on June 24 that injured a Japanese mother and child at a school bus stop in Suzhou, west of Shanghai, according to media reports. A female bus attendant who

US sanctions firms for training PLA aircrew in S Africa

The United States sanctioned four companies in Hong Kong, South Africa and the United Kingdom and accused them of using Western and NATO sources to train Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircrew in South Africa. The sanctioned firms include Global Training Solutions