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My newsletter is mainly on Substack. Why not subscribe? This week, I came out with the third of three parts of a series on the three arenas of technological rivalry between the US and China. The first was on the US-China microchip rivalry: Inviting the Philippines to the Microchip Alliance In 1982, President Ferdinand Marcos stayed in the Quezon Suite in the Shoreham during his state visit to Washington. In…mlq3.substack.com

Sad news today: Revue is going the way of all things, having been declared a casualty of the new era of Twitter ownership. This will therefore be the last newsletter on this platform. But wait! There’s more! For current subscribers I’ve taken the liberty of signing you on to my…

Ahead of next week’s column, some observations. There’s been an influx of news, the latest being that the House is looking for a scapegoat, but let’s rewind to this week’s developments. Some thoughts on #maharlikafund and two news items and what they suggest. The House blinked, caving in to public…

This week’s column looks at two inconvenient news items (for the administration). The first is a Reuters story on the 6-month losses of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund; the second is an Asia Sentinel story on Temasek’s writing off its investment in FTX after it collapsed. Related to these are…

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An omnibus: three columns, as I have been under the weather so was out of commission for over a week. Today’s column refers to these items: Understanding the conditions of New Bilibid Prisons: Implications for Integrated Reforms by Raymund E. Narag, Ph.D.; …

This week’s column tried to take a holistic look at different stories competing for our attention. But the overall story it seems to me, is the government acknowledging health is a drag on the economy, and that the economy could stand a boost from dropping health precautions: this would also…

My column this week looks at the woes of the Justice Secretary, through a historian’s lens. This week’s The Long View