ASIAN SCHOLAR | Sass Rogando Sasot
Insights on international relations, history, and political philosophy, with a special focus on East Asia and the Philippines
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Aug 11, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 9, 2026
Latest issues
COA Auditor Wamil's Naive Use of "Causal Link" (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My friend Dr Batu talked to me about Atty Wamil’s casual use of “causal link” on the August 5, 2026 impeachment trial of Vice President Inday Sara Duterte. And immediately, I noticed that Wamil has such bad ontology and incompetent understanding of the system he is “auditing.”First let me give the context.Senator-Judge Lacson: Kasi kung paper lang, magre-rely lang kayo sa mga submission, Hindi ninyo inaalam, you don’t go farther than that, Hindi
Sara (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Hi guys! Here’s a music I wrote and produced with the help of AI for our girl VP Sara Duterte. I hope you like. It’s now on Spotify.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐄𝐀: 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐒𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐕𝐒 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐌 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="483" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6HR_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3141fbd3-4b08-4c5d-a960-42ec4edbd1eb_1400x1400.pn
"𝐖𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐎𝐧𝐞-𝐨𝐧-𝐎𝐧𝐞": 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐔𝐬 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
This is the true context of Pax Silica: The status anxiety of the American elite. The American elite admitted that the game was no longer theirs to win — and decided the world - including the Philippines - must pay to keep them at the table anyway.At the 2026 Center for American Progress IDEAS Conference, former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the quiet part out loud. America, he admitted, “cannot compete with China one-on-one,” because that is “a game they might lose.” He listed the
WHY SUPPORT FOR THE 2016 SOUTH CHINA SEA ARBITRATION RULING DWINDLED FROM 26 TO 13 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="544" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_vs_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F488b1d38-25d3-4b06-9eff-ecab0953723f_1617x604.png"
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.