The Atlantic Has It All Wrong About China, The US, and West Asia

The Atlantic Has It All Wrong About China, The US, and West Asia

The US is solely responsible for China’s recent inroads in West Asia that were brought about by those countries regarding Beijing as a much more reliable partner than Washington due to the latter’s counterproductive policies over the decades. The influential American magazine The Atlantic published on article on 4 September titled “How America Can Win…

A Dream Deferred? Manila Renews the Visiting Forces Agreement With the U.S. – BRI vs. B3W

A Dream Deferred? Manila Renews the Visiting Forces Agreement With the U.S. – BRI vs. B3W

The renewed VFA may be among the last that the Philippines signs, because the U.S. may not desire to sustain a presence as a part of its regional policy, Joaquin Flores writes. “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?Does it stink…

Building the World Back Better?

Building the World Back Better?

The Senate recently demonstrated that the only adhesive capable of uniting the two parties is a good, old-fashioned enemy. Although the Democrats and Republicans continue to bicker over the Biden administration’s infrastructure legislation, they achieved rare accord in passing a major technology bill that directs investment into key sectors of the economy. Why the sudden…

The Real B3W-NATO agenda

The Real B3W-NATO agenda

The West is the best The West is the bestGet here and we’ll do the rest Jim Morrison, The End For those spared the ordeal of sifting through the NATO summit communique, here’s the concise low down: Russia is an “acute threat” and China is a “systemic challenge”. NATO, of course, are just a bunch…