Obviously, if your enabling good life for your people comes at the expense of other countries' national sovereignty and rights, that's something to worry about. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Maybe the headline could be tweaked to reflect the real problem: China raises retirement age because it knows its economy is in deep trouble amid ageing population, plummeting birth rate. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Most un-humanitarian coastguard that the world has ever known practically starves its rival in the SCS: crew onboard BRP Teresa Magbanua subsisted on rice porridge and aircon water for weeks in Sabina Shoal after PRC forces blocked resupply. gmanetwork.com/news/topstorie…

U.S. State Department got this wrong. It's not "freedom of navigation" - a term that applies if one refers to user states' freedom and rights in PH EEZ. In this case, it should be PH exercise of "sovereign rights" in EEZ as the coastal state in question. state.gov/briefings/depa…

The home owner attending to his own front lawn cannot be a troublemaker compared to the neighborhood gangster who insists that plot of land is his. 🙃

PRC, that over-sized renegade boy who's since lost his way by bullying the smaller boys in class. 🙃

Wang Wei's over-zealous flexing off Hainan in 2001 which led to his untimely demise didn't discourage the younger generation of PLA pilots from undertaking such antics. The opposite is true instead - while Zhongnanhai and the PLA leadership egg them on. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

Against unfair competition, to be precise.

A most interesting working paper from RAND exploring the relationship between PRC commercial and military shipbuilding industry. rand.org/pubs/working_p…

An interesting development to watch. 👀