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The remittance trap – building an economy of exit
Wednesday, 10 June 2026 19:59 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Last of two partsONE of the great tragedies of Philippine development is that the country did not fail because it lacked talent. It failed because it never learned how to keep and organize that talent at home.In the 1950s, the…
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The indispensable archipelago
Wednesday, 10 June 2026 19:45 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
First of two partsTHESE past weeks, Filipinos were treated to another despicable, scandalous Senate reality show. In less than eight months, the Senate presidency changed hands twice. Francis Escudero was replaced by Vicente Sotto III in September 2025, only for…
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The art of the ‘no deal’: How China stood still and won a summit
Wednesday, 27 May 2026 22:27 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THE smoke from “Operation Epic Fury” had barely cleared from the Persian Gulf before Washington’s MAGA strategists began sketching the architecture of a new American century. Their thesis was seductively simple: By crippling Iran’s regional network and imposing a military…
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The Philippine Senate, an escape tunnel for the privileged
Wednesday, 20 May 2026 19:56 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
MY last domestic column concluded a series on political dynasties. For nine weeks since, this space tracked a global apocalypse: a catastrophic war ignited by a megalomaniac Trump that decapitated Iran’s leadership, devastated the Middle East, and wrecked the global…
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Hormuz: The cost of winning battles — losing the war
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 21:54 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THERE are strategic moments when the most dangerous illusion is not defeat, but victory. Hormuz may come to stand as one of those moments.By every optics, America appears to be winning. Missiles intercept. Carrier groups in place. Air superiority remains…
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The war Moscow did not fight — and may still win
Wednesday, 06 May 2026 19:06 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THE most consequential beneficiaries of war are not always those firing missiles or occupying territory. Sometimes they are the states that simply endure long enough for the global system to rearrange itself around them.That is increasingly the case with Russia.The…
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America’s ambassador, or what the appointment reveals
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 13:24 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
IMAGINE — if only as a diplomatic thought experiment — the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs announcing, with ceremonial gravity, a new ambassador to Washington. Our most consequential ally. The anchor of our security architecture. The guarantor — at least on…
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Hormuz: The line that would not hold
Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:20 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THERE are moments in foreign policy when action matters less than reaction — when what the world refuses to do tells you more than any display of force. Hormuz, after Iran closed it, was meant to prove American power. It…
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