For the nth time, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. provoked a backlash over his Twitter posts, this time for his rash remarks dismissing Chinese poaching and the harvesting of giant clams in Scarborough Shoal as just about “fucking food” (he spelled it out as usual). So much for the foreign secretary as the country’s top diplomat, the supposed epitome of discretion and considered conduct. Why Locsin is bloviating on sensitive foreign policy on Twitter is, first
A specter is haunting the Philippines—the specter of unfettered illiberalism. What the country confronts is not necessarily the dystopia of dictatorship, but instead a 21st-century version of what Fareed Zakaria famously termed as “illiberal democracy.” To be clear, we will likely have “democracy” (the selection of top political leaders through relatively
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