HeyJaredLito Monico C. Lorenzana
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- Sep 29, 2026
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The day America could no longer police the world (opens the original)
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OUR Pax Silica series offered a glimpse of the new world. America is no longer merely policing an international order it largely created. It is assembling alliances, securing supply chains, protecting technologies and recruiting strategic partners against China. The policeman has not disappeared. He is recruiting a neighborhood watch. And the Philippines, sitting beside some of the world’s most contested waters, has suddenly discovered that geography, an inconvenience for centuries, may now be n
Pax Silica: They get the chips, we get the bill? (opens the original)
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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. PAX Silica arrives gift-wrapped in the language of the future: AI, semiconductors, critical minerals, high-quality jobs and $70 billion in investment. Only a certified cynic — like me, after eight decades of similar promises — would spoil the celebration by asking: Who pays? The 1,620-hectare New Clark City hub needs roads, electricity, water, wastewater treatment, skilled workers and tax incentives. Someone will finance the infrastructure, surrende
To escape the presidency, first elect a president (opens the original)
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FOR several weeks, I have been committing what may qualify as heresy in Philippine politics. I have argued that our problem is not merely finding better presidents. It is building institutions that do not require an extraordinary president merely to function. Every six years, we search for another national savior. We select a face, invent a slogan, commission a jingle and persuade ourselves that this candidate will rise above the system that selected, financed and surrounded him. The reformer di
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