Lloyd C. Bautista
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Chinese connection to the Philippine Left (opens the original)
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THE rebirth of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Dec. 26, 1968, from a breakaway faction of the old Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP-1930), whose armed wing was led by Luis Taruc’s Hukbong Magpapalaya ng Bayan (HMB), was deeply intertwined with Chinese communism and Maoist ideology. Moreover, the New People’s Army, established as the CPP’s armed wing on March 29, 1969, subsequently received a large cache of firearms from China. In July 1972, the MV Karagatan attempted to land a
Chinaâs risk calculus to use force on Taiwan (opens the original)
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CHINA was once bullied. But now itâs the one bullying. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Western imperial powers subjugated China, imposing treaties that forcibly opened its ports to the opium trade and secured territorial concessions. Britain took over Hong Kong and France dominated Guangzhouwan, while Portugal took control of Macao and Russia seized large territories along Chinaâs northern frontier. This humiliating period in Chinaâs history shaped President Xi Jinpingâs risk c
Weaponizing human migration (opens the original)
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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. THE miserable quality of life of a nation is often said to be the reason why people migrate to more prosperous and developed countries. But human migration can also become something more sinister — destabilizing another country’s governance systems by sending hordes of migrants to flood and exhaust its resources. In July, more than 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain’s northern African enclave of Ceuta. Most were desperate people who bra
The day Metro Manila stood still (opens the original)
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FOR several hours on Sept. 3, it seemed that Metro Manila had stopped moving. Cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles and people were trapped in an endless sea of traffic. Engines continued to run and horns continued to blare, but nothing moved. Metro Manila was paralyzed once again by torrential rains, not because the floods were that high but because the heavy downpour was enough to strand hundreds of thousands in their tracks. On EDSA and C5, an endless procession of vehicles snaked slowly through e
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