Professor Bert Hofman delivered the Ambassador Chito Sta Romana Memorial Lecture, “China’s Rise and Its Implications for ASEAN”, on 10 February 2023 at the GT-Toyota Auditorium, Asian Center (AC), University of the Philippines Diliman. An economist by training, Hofman focused on the current political-economic standing of China and how this would impact the complex China-US [...]
The Philippine Association for Chinese Studies (PACS), in cooperation with the University of the Philippines Asian Center, will be hosting the Ambassador Chito Sta. Romana Memorial Lecture, “China's Rise and its Implications for ASEAN”, on 10 February 2023, 9:30 am, Philippine Standard Time, ONSITE at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium. The lecture is free and [...]
Call for Contributions to a Proposed Edited Collection Project Description: Research on Chinese diasporic cultural productions has been long dominated by studies on Chinese Americans and an Eastern-Western transnational framework. However, cultural production by the ethnic Chinese has developed discernible nodes outside that exclusively Western sphere. This is particularly evident in Southeast Asia, a region [...]
by Darlene Estrada April 23, 2021 - China has been cast as “a climate leader and villain”[1] because of the reality that it is both the world leader in clean energy development and the world’s top coal consuming country at present. But getting better understanding of China’s ironic situation means recognizing that behind both energy-related [...]
by Cristine Detera and Shara Divinagracia 6 April 2021 - On January 22, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress passed a law that, for the first time, specifically defines the provisions under which the Chinese coast guard would be allowed to use weapons on foreign-registered vessels. On February 1, the law went into [...]
by Theresa Carino 18 February 2021 - China’s New Coast Guard Law, which came into force on 1 February 2021, explicitly specifies for the first time the conditions under which the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) would be allowed to use weapons against foreign vessels. What appeared as an effort to institutionalize a maritime law enforcement [...]
By: Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 06:20 AM November 17, 2020 Something momentous happened over the weekend that signals the continuing shift of the world’s economic fulcrum to Asia-Pacific away from North America, dominated by the United States. Fifteen economies comprising about a third of the world’s population and of the global economy signed a [...]
by Lucio Blanco Pitlo III Oct. 13, 2020-- A spate of visits to Southeast Asia this week by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi augurs a possible return to a charm offensive by China. Wang will visit Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos, and Thailand on the heels of his meeting with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and [...]
by Lucio Blanco Pitlo III/ Originally Posted at SCMP/16 July 2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement on Washington’s opposition to Beijing’s expansive claims in the South China Sea goes beyond its traditional assertions of navigational and overflight freedoms. By showing its support for international law, notably a 2016 ruling by an arbitral tribunal convened [...]
By CNN Philippines Staff / Published Jan 24, 2020 at CNN Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 24) – Close to 500 Chinese tourists who arrived in Kalibo, Aklan from the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus outbreak began, will be transported back to their point of origin this week, an aviation official confirmed Friday. Civil Aviation Board Executive Director [...]
