Can the Philippines afford the purchase and long-term sustainment of the F16, in its most advanced customized configuration permissible for a U.S. ally?

Indeed, entire ecosystems of trainings (including in electronic warfare systems), integration, support, long-term sustenance and co-assembly arrangements for parts must be on the table. To add, weapon systems of all sorts suited for the peculiarities of the needs of the economically (relatively) fast-growing country in communist China’s near-geographical orbit.

But, the Philippines have an urgent need for a vast array of upgraded and new defensive capabilities from land defense systems, missiles, drones and overall modernization in broad fronts in the capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and entire …

A dilemma for the Trump administration for its partner-allies among developing countries: Organized crime, terrorism and severe corruption being exploited by the Communist Party of China and the PLA. The whole-of-nation, asymmetric approach that’s necessary to boost relative societal stability and good governance to counter this

A severely corrupt society is a country with serious vulnerability to soft power projection, open and covert influence operations, catalyzing of political instability, the triggering of disruptive events and divisive pointless debates, and deep and broad penetration of society, undermining of independent foreign and local policies that align with the values and principles of democracy by the Communist Party of China (CCP) and its myriad of government units, agencies and organizations.

Certainly, CCP-China can corrupt institutions, hijacking the very functions of democracy including elections. In many parts of the world, …

The AI race, the research and industrial base, existing and developing supply chain in the advanced semiconductor industry (for 5nm-2nm chips)

This is a broad summary of my take on this long-term dilemma for the Communist Party of China and its controlled private-sector industries and company. There’s an ongoing AI revolution. The United States is by far leading in this, and is expected to keep its lead position for the foreseeable future. The importance of this is that AI is to eventually power and define the kind of world we live in within the next 15-20 years, and the relative economic and military power of the leading Western powers versus China. …

Poster boy of hard-core socialists, Maduro (as his predecessor), an ally of Communist Party of China (as his predecessor) was being projected as a symbol of resistance and defiance to the U.S.-led rules-based order

At the time of former President Rody Duterte (mid-July to mid-2022), we campaigned for the Filipinos to know about this patriotic-sounding dictator of Venezuela. Now, December of 2025, he is terrified of losing it all, and he’s going to fall from power, hard. He didn’t realize — that if Chairman Mao Zedong of China could purge very close allies and friends, and those revolutionaries who catapulted (and help keep) him to power as dictator-ruler, were later purged, imprisoned in very bad conditions until death, or outright murdered in great acts …

Revelation: This is part of our private-citizen discreet efforts to help save lives in the period mid-2016 to mid-2022. Our anti-Chinese Communist Party campaign that educated civil society leaders and public officials about then yet non-mainstream issues

For perspective, I have to remind readers that this is just a small part of our work, and these Facebook posts we are publishing here too were created, composed in branded but small and low-end tablets and smartphones, and a few rushed in desktop computers too, many times under either difficult or dangerous circumstances and places. Rian and I used simple info-graphics (texts in a photo or graphical format) to cram as many bits of info (including comparative ones) in a single piece of info-graphic that the Facebook format would …

The so-called balance of power between the United States, its partner-allies and CCP-China in East and South Asia

I have always believed in the debilitating inferiority of the CCP-China’s war fighting machines and now I also believe the same as true even in this Asian hegemon’s strategic deterrence. National security and even war hawks in the U.S. would of course not easily say this in public, for various reasons, in ways the Communist Party of China’s (CCP) leaders would rally the Chinese people under their authoritarian and oppressive-repressive regime. However, I also believe that CCP-China is not a paper-tiger superpower, as some military and political analysts suggest.

The …

Now mainstream in the U.S. and all of the West, and also in the Philippines (finally) – Our campaigns to educate, inform civil society leaders, public officials and their advisers and mainstream folks the relative economic and military powers of the United States and CCP-China (Chinese Communist Party)

It was informational campaign in the most dangerous, difficult and highly contested political and social national environment. At the start of the Duterte administration, in mid-2022, talks and media coverage about then President Duterte’s threats, or campaign pledge, of a pivot-to-China shift in the Philippine’s foreign policy, dominated all other issues except the most controversial campaign pledge long before he won the May 2022 elections, of slaughtering a 100,000 or so addicts.

If you think topics in my Facebook and website posts were somewhat primitive and info-graphics simplistic, you have …

The Big Taiwan Question, Nuclear Proliferation, Nobel Laureate Madam Suu Kyi, the Prospects for Future Mass Killings & Communist Party of China’s Opportunistic Alliance-Building with Rogue Leaders

19 January 2023

Not all crises, conflicts and acts of genocides are preventable. But what are those that are?
Why strategic ambiguity is not the best Idea in the U.S.’s commitment of full military support of Taiwan in case of China’s forceful seizing of control of this extraordinarily successful society?
The erosion of moral authority in Western institutions is a threat to global rules-based order and peace
What can we imagine about Taiwan should it’s fate fall in the hands of Chinese Communist Party corrupt dictators?
Japan and the existential

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Our Unique Take – The War in Ukraine and Its Costs in China’s Strategies and Ambitions

18 January 2023 but still a draft to this date 15Dec25

Expected shifts and renaissance in the military-industrial complexes and associated research programs within and across the Western powers. This post is a spur-of-the moment composition, without outlines and so I drift into different topics and is not of a quality of a media article or formal report
Are we on the cusp of a period in human civilization’s history, when after a long period of relative global peace, the existential threats humanity is confronted with are least manageable?

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