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Asian models of governance
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 23:27 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
IN past columns, we made a case for pursuing alternatives to our kind of democracy that is not working as intended by our American colonialists. We compared democratic governments and authoritarian regimes — isolating criteria that could work for us…
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Pursuing alternatives to democracy
Wednesday, 20 September 2023 20:11 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THE previous two parts of this series discussed Philippine perspectives on democracy as handed down to us by America. We were gifted a version of governance that was deemed suited for us. America gave us a liberal unitary-presidential system of…
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Philippine perspectives on China's experience
Thursday, 14 September 2023 04:44 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
LAST week's column ended with a suggestion that democracy and its attendant principles may not be the right fit for us, considering the decades of experimentation in the Philippines, comparative to some successful Asian countries run under the opposite type…
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Philippine perspective on Western concepts
Wednesday, 06 September 2023 20:57 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
SEVERAL years ago, when we established the Centrist Democratic Movement (CDM) of young political technocrats that transformed itself into a political party of dues-paying members, the Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines (CDP), we never had the illusion that we…
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Trump indictments: Imprisonment or the presidency
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 17:11 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
MY columns these past weeks focused on the Ukraine war and its alternative outcomes. A case was made for Putin and Zelenskyy slugging it out over Ukraine. But overarching this is a bigger fight being played out in a geopolitical…
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Postscript on Ukraine: China wins
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 09:52 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
Last of 3 partsTHE last few columns were a play on the outcomes of the Ukraine war, suggesting alternative endings to how the conflict unfolds. The first is that Russia wins. Ukraine is destroyed, and Russia occupies the country, installing…
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Postscript on Ukraine implications for a multipolar world
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 19:29 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of 3 partsAFTER 18 months, it seems obvious that NATO and Zelenskyy are running out of options. There are limits to how much military aid can be sent to Ukraine to fight non-nuclear conventional warfare. And NATO does not…
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Postscript on Ukraine: A contrarian view
Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:27 Written by Lito Monico Lorenzana
AS intense as the skirmishes on the battlefield are the fights between legacy and social media to present the facts on the ground. This rivalry between the two types of media platforms shapes public opinion and influences the war narratives…
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