The U.S. could be drawn into a conflict between China and the Philippines that's been roiling the South China Sea.

The Philippines' two leading political dynasties have been at war for two years. It will likely get bloodier and worsen the ...

THIS year's Philippine Independence Day celebration focuses on the freedom that Filipino forebears struggled for in honor of ...

The International Institute for Strategic Studies recently concluded its annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. With 47 countries in attendance, the forum provides a platform for defense ministers, ...

An overview of conflict, from protests to military and militant violence, in the Asia-Pacific in May 2025. Each month, ...

ORIANA SKYLAR MASTRO is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

In recent months, Philippine politics has played out like an intense soap opera. Unlike a primetime drama, however, this ...

Time was when Highway 54 was a two-lane road lined with acacia trees craning to see who was the rare interloper driving up or down the stretch from the Bonifacio Monument in Caloocan to Taft Avenue in ...

In today’s major global conflicts – in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan – the UN’s role has largely been in the area of a ...

While the Cold War is decades past, the terms have endured ... an international relations lecturer at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), told CNA. China regained its place as the ...

But according to research by a group of Filipino economists, “Political dynasties in the Philippines are exceptional in their ...