The Philippines won a huge legal victory against China on a long-running territorial dispute. But Manila's alliance with Washington may make it all for nothing.
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Tensions are ratcheting up between China and the United States over maritime boundaries in Asia.
A hapless elite, an angry electorate, and a brash front-runner with little regard for democratic norms: The latest Philippine election sounds a lot like America's.
If the U.S. and China think they can grow at each other's expense, they're snookering themselves.
In minimizing U.S. resort to violence, President Obama has brought conflict resolution to the Oval Office.
What if world leaders, starting with the U.S., took seriously Pope Francis' call to treat global crises as moral issues?
In the Philippines, the grandson of a despised collaborator has endorsed the remilitarization of his country's former occupiers — by the grandson of a war criminal, no less.
U.S. efforts to construct an "armed peace" in the Asia-Pacific are only encouraging a cycle of escalation.
Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military threats.
Today, Asia is like the Kardashian clan: wealthy, contentious, and all up in the public’s face.