Tensions flare around Manila’s lucrative online casinos
CLIFF VENZON, Nikkei staff writer / OCTOBER 09, 2019 MANILA -- Business along Quirino Avenue near Manila's airport had been in a period of long decline, until it began a sudden resurgence over the last [...]
People around the globe are divided in their opinions of China
BY LAURA SILVER, KAT DEVLIN AND CHRISTINE HUANG / PEW RESEARCH As the People’s Republic of China celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding on Oct. 1, it gets mixed reviews from people around the world, according to [...]
(4th lecture) Carlos Chan Lecture Series- Understanding China’s International Behavior
The 4th lecture of Carlos Chan Lecture Series was held in Ateneo De Manila University, in partnership with ADMU's Chinese Studies Program and the Department of Political Science, on 1 October 2019. Ambassador Wilfrido Villacorta, [...]
Maritime Development and Security Chronalysis: April to June 2019
APPFI Secretariat, 01 July 2019 As the Philippines entered midterm election frenzy, China emerged as an important issue with the opposition using the Duterte administration's China policy against his allies. Though this did not translate to [...]
Why the Chinese Helped the British Invade Manila in the 18th Century
By MARIO ALVARO LIMOS | Jul 10, 2019 / by Esquire In 1762, the British invaded Manila. They had help from a traditional enemy: the Chinese. Relations between Spaniards and the Chinese had been fraught for [...]
‘Century of Humiliation’ shaped China’s int’l behavior —expert
By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News / 1 October 2019 The way China behaves in matters of external relations reflects far deeper roots than its current status as the world’s second largest economy, a foreign [...]
What Xi Jinping Hasn’t Learned From China’s Emperors
By James A. Millward / The New York Times On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) on Oct. 1, the party-state has much to celebrate: an unprecedented record of economic [...]
China women still battling tradition, 70 years after revolution
Originally Posted at Al Jazeera, by Kelly Dawson Beijing, China - Zhang Nuannuan kicked with such force from inside her mother’s womb that her relatives were certain she was a boy. When the doctors announced the [...]
Publications
PERSPECTIVES ON CHINA AND THE CHINESE THROUGH THE YEARS: A Retrospective Collection, 1992-2013
Tina S. Clemente, 2020