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On this episode of the China Global podcast, the relationship between the Philippines and China, and some of the flashpoints therein (especially in the maritime realm), will be discussed. 

Since taking office in June 2022, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has pursued a strategy of “being a friend to all and an enemy to none.” He has tried to maintain close economic ties with China, signing 14 cooperation agreements when he visited Beijing last January, including an updated Belt and Road Initiative memorandum. He secured over $22 billion in investment and trade deals. But the maritime disputes between the Philippines and China are becoming more contentious, and Manila is pushing back against Chinese pressure in new ways.  

Host Bonnie Glaser is joined by Richard Heydarian to analyze the bilateral relationship and especially the maritime flashpoints. Heydarian is a columnist at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines, and a policy adviser. His most recent book is The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China, and the New Global Struggle for Mastery. 

Timestamps

[01:36] Changes in Sino-Phillipine Relations

[09:05] Tensions Between the Chinese Coast Guard and Philippine Ships

[14:23] Pushing Back Against China

[20:55] China, the Philippines, and the Warship

[25:05] Future Relations with China

[29:30] The Philippines and a Taiwan Strait Conflict

Note: The podcast episode title captures the essence of the guest's advocacy and personal experiences, emphasizing the changes, challenges, and triumphs within the LGBTQIA+ community in the Philippines.

In this episode we continue to talk with the amazing Attorney Regal Olivia from the Philippines who is a lawyer, a human rights activist, a fashion icon, a loving parent and the list goes on. This is PART two of a two-part piece. 

We left off last week, asking the question of what change the LGBT+ community in the Philippines faces in regard to acceptance. Regal explains how there have been big leaps in terms of safe spaces, such as homophobic remarks that are punishable, anti-rape law that includes males, and so on. She adds, that even in the absence of law, there are several organizations, and local governments that push to be inclusive and promote acceptance. Regal expresses how impressed she is with today's LGBTQ+ representatives who fight vocally for LGBT rights. The conversation touches upon the bullying and trauma from past LGBTQIA individuals, and the hope found in the support attitudes of today’s youths towards the LGBT community. Tiffany asks Regal what her current favorite books are, her coming out story and families' reaction to her uniqueness and gender identity, how we can heal from the stigma from the community, recycling fashion, and much more! Regal shares that if you want to succeed in life, you must love yourself first. 

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Atty. Regal Mendoza Oliva finished a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master in Public Administration at Silliman University. Took her Law degree from the University of San Carlos and passed the Philippine Bar in 2014. She also finished her course in International Human Rights at the Australian Christian University in Sydney, Australia.  A staunch social activist forwarding the LGBT, women, and children's Rights movement in her community. She is President of the Cebu Lady Lawyers Association. She also sits as the Executive Vice President of the Philippine Association of Local Treasurers and Assessors, while serving as a resource speaker in various events in the Philippines and abroad.  She believes that the only way to benefit and enrich yourself is to share whatever blessings you have with others. 

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Dr. David Marchick, Dean of American University’s Kogod School of Business, hosted the popular Transition Lab podcast addressing presidential changes of power with the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition. His most recent book is: The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions The acceptance of the results of a fair, free and democratic election, plus a seamless transition from one administration to the next, is crucial to a functioning and viable democracy. Attacks on democracy have become more prevalent, e.g., Orban in Hungary, Duterte in the Philippines, Erdogan in Turkey, Trump in the US. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, Ken Burns, the famous documentarian, suggested that it has been a miracle for the past 246 years that wthere were peaceful transitions, until the January 6, 2021 insurgency which was invited and incited by Donald Trump. The Presidential Transition Act requires outgoing administrations to pursue a professional transition.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, the publisher, part-owner, and former editor of the magazine The Nation is a political commentator on various TV programs, a guest columnist for the Washington Post and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She emphasizes how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped found the UN out of the ashes of World War 2 and proffered the Four Freedoms (Freedoms of Speech and Worship and Freedoms from Want and Fear), which are arguably under siege by the former president, Donald Trump. Similar autocratic, anti-democratic insurgents are operating in Hungary, the Philippines, Brazil, Russia and several other countries. She highlights the major differences between the Trump (Unilateralist) and Biden (Multilateralist) foreign policies: it is in America’s interest to actively participate in UN agencies, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Human Rights Council, as well as NATO and the EU. Although it was a strategic blunder by Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iranian Nuclear Deal, which actually was successful in blocking Iranian ambitions to develop a nuclear weapon, the Biden Administration has a responsibility to move more aggressively in reactivating the agreement. Other areas of importance are to maintain a strong military defense, reduce the bloated Defense Department budget and the disproportionate influence of the Military-Industrial Complex, provide assistance to veterans and develop more effective lines of communication and dialogue with adversaries such as China and Russia.

Episode Highlights:

[1:30] Duterte’s China Policy

[4:36] Change under the New Marcos Government?

[6:53] Philippines’ Relations with the United States

[8:45] Public Opinion in the Philippines toward China

[14:10] Joint China-Philippines Energy Exploration Talks

[17:15] Railway Projects Loan Agreements with China

[19:14] Future Developments

The US is on a shrinking list of countries that haven't yet recognized how counterproductive the war on drugs is. As we have continued to kill and arrest drug users, making the problem worse, other countries have seen tremendous results in decriminalization, and in some even legalization and regulation of drugs. In this episode I'll  walk through various drug laws and how they work across the world, and I'll explain why legalization with regulation is the best way to address the current drug overdose crisis. 

Follow the link for statistics regarding UK heroin addiction in the 1960s versus US heroin addiction.

To read about Dr. Marks's work prescribing heroin to addicted people in the 1980s, check out Maia Szalavitz's book, Undoing Drugs.

For more about Tim Rhode's "Structural Risk Environment," see "Risk Environments and Drug Harms."

To read more about Portugal's drug policy, check out the linked article from The Guardian.

To read more about harm reduction and drug policies across the world, check out the linked article in Filter.

Music by Muzaproduction from Pixabay

At the end of June, the Philippines will formally inaugurate a new leadership – but it will feature two very familiar names. 

There will be a second ‘President Ferdinand Marcos’; and another Duterte – Sara, daughter of the current president – will become vice-president.

The new President Marcos, generally known as Bongbong, is the son of the man who led the Philippines from the time he was elected in 1965 until he was deposed by a ‘people power’ revolution in 1986. During the two decades in between, Marcos Senior amassed billions of dollars in private wealth, oversaw the killing and disappearance of thousands of political opponents, imposed martial law and created a debt-fuelled economic boom which ended in a major recession.

Sara Duterte is the daughter of a man who has polarised the Philippines during the past six years, the current president, Rodrigo Duterte. His signature policy was a ‘war on drugs’ which has caused the deaths of somewhere between six and thirty thousand people.

Despite these chequered family backgrounds both Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte were elected with huge majorities in the elections on May 9th. 

Now the dust has settled, we’re going to find out how they did it and what it means for the country.

Our first guest is Ronald Holmes, president of Pulse Asia, one of the Philippines' leading public opinion research companies. He's also Professor of Politics at De La Salle University in Manila.

Joining him is Maria Ela Atienza, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of the Philippines. 

Our guest host for this episode is Bill Hayton, Associate Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at the London-based think-tank, Chatham House. 

As ever, you can find out more about the episodes on our website. 

If Ferdinand Marcos Junior wins this week’s presidential election as expected, it will cap off a most remarkable come-back for a family exiled in the 1980s after stripping the country of billions and driving the economy into the ground.

What does the American public think about China, internal v. external threats, and who benefits from US foreign policy?  This week we were joined by Craig Kafura with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to discuss the results of their recent survey about all things foreign policy.  Also this episode: the Philippines' Duterte problem as a structural issue; a review of a review of Rush Doshi's book on Chinese grand strategy; and North Korean hypersonic glide vehicles.

Chicago Council Survey: http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/ccs2021_fpmc_0.pdf

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Contributors: Hunter Marston, Gaby Magnuson, Ciara Mitchell

Why defense grifters and jingoes love deterrence-by-denial strategies. Why Manny Pacquiao could beat Duterte, and why that might not be good for the Philippines.  WTH is a classical liberal?  Also this episode: Is China the new standard-setter in tech?  

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Ryan Evans Tweet: https://twitter.com/EvansRyan202/status/1431627298512461824?s=19

Simon Brown on the Rise of the Anti-Intellectual: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-rise-of-the-elite-anti-intellectuals

Contributors: Jake Dellow, Ciara Mitchell, Gaby Magnuson, Hunter Marston

Hosted and produced by Shaunagh Connaire and edited by Ryan Ferguson.

The Philippines' war on drugs presses on despite the coronavirus lockdown. President Rodrigo Duterte's radical policy has led to more than 20,000 deaths since 2016 — most of which were extrajudicial killings. We're turning to a filmmaker to understand how classism has upended Philippine society.

In this episode:

Leah Borromeo (@monstris), filmmaker of The Mortician of Manila documentary, and cofounder of Disobedient.

For more:

Trailer: The Mortician of Manila, on AJ Witness

Duterte urged to free jailed senator amid coronavirus lockdown

'Shoot them dead': Duterte warns against violating lockdown

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has told the army to shoot to kill anyone who violates strict COVID-19 lockdowns. Has he gone too far, or is this just more of the strong-man machismo that made him so popular? We talk to Sheila Coronel, Professor of Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School.

Also, why don't Australian prime ministers leave quietly? Australia has had 30 prime ministers since its Federation in 1901. According to political historian Norman Abjorensen they all have one thing in common: a marked reluctance to relinquish power.

In this episode of the Monsoon Podcast, Guy Exton puts populism centre stage, exploring its characters in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

For better or for worse, 2018 was a year of populism.

Champion cricketer Imran Khan was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, President Duterte of the Phillipines finished his second year of office, and the impacts of Brexit's Vote Leave and the policies of US President Donald Trump continued to ripple across the world. What is populism, how did we get here, and where to next?

On this Monsoon Podcast, Guy Exton accompanies Dr Jessica Genauer on a journey around the world’s populist democracies.

Dr Jessica Genauer is a lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Her recent PhD thesis examines the impact of election system design during periods of regime transition in the Middle East and North Africa.

Feature image source: The Epoch Times

Music: Ride of the Valkyries - from "Die Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner, performed by American Symphony Orchestra.