Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign policy. Show all posts
Sunday, February 09, 2025

Maharlika's NGCP Investment: Economic Nationalism or a Bailout?

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  Don’t you need some ‘wealth’ to create a ‘wealth fund?’ Norway did it with the money it got from North Sea oil. China’s trillion-dollar we...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Ron Paul: Lessons from Paris

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Former US congressman and libertarian Ron Paul explains that the latest terror events in Paris partly represented a blowback from foreign p...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Deglobalization: Chinese State owned firms to sever ties with US consulting firms

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Geopolitical strains have begun to spillover into the economic realm. The Chinese government orders her state owned companies to cut ti...
Thursday, May 08, 2014

Along with the French, Chinese Police to Patrol Paris

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From the Guardian Paris police are to draft in reinforcements from China to help patrol the French capital during the summer tourist bo...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Showbiz Politics: The Myth of US-Philippine Defense Pact Promoting Regional Peace

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As I said yesterday, showbiz has practically consumed most of social affairs in the Philippines. More evidence of showbiz in the conte...
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Evil of Chávez is Dwarfed by that of the Governments of the "Free World”

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Hugo Chávez may have been oppressive, but at least he wasn't a lapdog for Washington like so many other heads of state. The world woul...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Scarborough Shoal Dispute: The Politics of Nationalism

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The Inquirer.net reports As the dispute between China and the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal entered its 18th day Friday, Senate Pr...
Saturday, April 07, 2012

Unintended Consequences from the Libyan Intervention

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Benjamin Friedman of the Cato Institute enumerates the unintended consequences of the foreign policy of military interventions in Libya in ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Global Weapons Exports and the Spratlys Dispute

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I previously asked if the Spratlys dispute has partly been about promoting weapons exports for the benefit of the military industrial compl...