PH, China to lower SCS tensions

January 19, 2024
Vow closer dialog to deal with ‘maritime emergencies’ in Ayungin Chinese and Philippine officials have agreed on the need for closer dialogue to deal with “maritime emergencies” and de-escalate conflict in the South China Sea, including in the hotly contested Second Thomas or Ayungin Shoal, Beijing said. Manila and Beijing have a long history of […]
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…But Beijing rebukes Manila to stop ‘wrong words, deeds’ on Taiwan

January 19, 2024
China on Thursday urged the Philippines to stick to its One China policy and stop its “wrong words and deeds” about Taiwan, after Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. criticized Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesperson for “gutter-level talk” in reprimanding President Marcos for congratulating Taiwan’s newly elected leader. “China will never accept anyone making provocations on the […]
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Reading Marco Garrido

January 19, 2024

Urban restructuring in developing countries through “globalization of cities in the South” is the intermediate economic background of Marco Garrido’s (2019) more than a decade long ethnographical study of Manila communities made up of urban poor settl...