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Daily Memo: An Alliance Survives

The U.S.-Philippine alliance revived. On Tuesday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said Manila had suspended the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement. While the formal Mutual Defense Treaty would’ve likely remained intact, it would’ve been relatively toothless without the VFA. Most of the more than 300 annual bilateral exercises would have been scrapped, to say […]

Mother Nature as a Geopolitical Force

History is biased, and not just because the victors tend to write it. The study of history is largely the study of humankind –...

Daily Memo: India-China Standoff Gets More Complicated

India’s frictions with its neighbors are becoming more entwined. The Pakistani and Chinese governments on Tuesday finalized an agreement on implementation of the Kohala...

From China to India

U.S.-China relations have been in decline for a long time. The United States had for years provided China with relatively free access to the...

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