Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy” has allowed Hanoi to carefully enter strategic partnerships with the U.S. and China while maintaining its own independence and security, its foreign minister said Tuesday at a Brookings Institution event.
Hanoi’s ‘Bamboo Diplomacy’ Preserves Vietnamese Independence, Says Foreign Minister
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SCS: The Office of Naval Research funded Stanford’s GKC
The Office of Naval Research is an organization within the US Department of Navy. Ray Powell’s Project Myoushu started at Stanford’s GKC. Funny how Powell’s information has disappeared from Stanford’s GKC. The internet never forgets, though!
Lighting Up the Gray Zone: The Philippines-Taiwan Counter-Coercion Toolkit
Perry World House’s Thomas Shattuck and Robin Garcia are out with an important new white paper which recommends the public release of visual information to counter China’s coercive activities, using the Philippines and Taiwan as examples. As the champions of “assertive transparency”, SeaLight enthusiastically welcomes this timely new scholarship!
Lighting Up the Gray Zone: The Philippines-Taiwan Counter-Coercion Toolkit
Perry World House is at the University of Pennsylvania, another university funded by the US government. I’ve updated my Project Myoushu document, to reflect the following:
The origin of Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. It’s sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, an organization within the Department of Navy. I saw it over at the Asian Century Journal, yesterday.
From a previous post.
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Tulsi Gabbard is running for Opportunist-in-Chief
Tulsi Gabbard is running for Opportunist-in-Chief
But what’s disappointing about her recent Maga makeover is that she’s abandoned a lot of the positive portions of the Sanders agenda she once espoused, policies designed to help working people: higher wages, better health care, and stronger unions (she got a 100 per cent voting score as a congressperson from the AFL-CIO). Instead, she now dismisses all aspects of Bidenomics as “fascism” and plays up the culture wars.
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Former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard will be keynote speaker at Mar-a-Lago fundraiser
Read More »Trump revealed Tuesday that he’s considering Gabbard as a running mate.
The fundraiser is not technically for Trump; it’s for the 917 Society, a nonprofit that promotes education about the Constitution.
The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
The Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot. It was a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption.
The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve (archived)
Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What It Is and Is Not
Fidel Castro, the world recognizes as a historic anti-imperialist figure, repeatedly warned that the main danger to humanity is US imperialism: “There is an enemy that can be called universal, an enemy whose attitude and whose actions…threaten the whole world, bully the whole world, that universal enemy is Yankee imperialism.” He fought to build a world united front against imperialism, of the world’s peoples and countries to oppose the barbarous actions of US imperialism. We see that anti-imperialist unity right now with United Nations votes and worldwide protests against the US-Israeli slaughters in Gaza, in what the New York Times in 2003 called “a second superpower.”
Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What It Is and Is Not
Prospects shaky for Philippines’ government and communist peace talks
Prospects shaky for Philippines’ government and communist peace talks
Manila, Philippines – Fighting continues between the Philippine military and communist rebels despite an agreement to resume peace talks this month in an effort to end the world’s longest-running communist armed rebellion.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr surprised many when, in November, his government announced an agreement with the National Democratic Front (NDF), the rebels’ political wing, to restart peace talks that his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte had ended shortly after taking office.
Considering that the Millennium Challenge Corporation just gave the Philippines a grant, I doubt that they’ll see any positive economic reforms. MCC’s support for “democratic reform” is akin to the “democracy promotion” advanced by the National Endowment for Democracy. My guess is that it’s to keep the Philippines in line with US foreign policy against China.
The UAW Strike Saved Their Shuttered Plant, But the Fight Is Just Beginning
The revival of the Stellantis plant is a stunning reversal of fortunes for Belvidere, Ill. But workers say they won’t rest until they see the concrete being poured.
The UAW Strike Saved Their Shuttered Plant, But the Fight Is Just Beginning
A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer
The case, to be argued by lawyers linked to the petrochemicals billionaire Charles Koch, could sharply curtail the government’s regulatory authority.
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The Cause of Action Institute has disclosed little of its funding*: A year before it was created, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling had enabled billions of dollars in spending by groups that don’t disclose their donors.
A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer
Guess the author doesn’t know how to ‘Google’! 🙄
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*Cause of Action @ SourceWatch (includes tax filings)
Funding
Cause of Action Institute is not required to disclose its funders but major foundation supporters can be found through their IRS filings. Here are some known contributors:
- Americans for Prosperity Foundation: $200,000 (2022)
- Capital Leaders: $4,500,000 (2017)
- Charles G. Koch Foundation: $76,852 (2014-2019)
- Donors Capital Fund: $100,000 (2015)
- DonorsTrust: $17,950,000 (2012-2017)
- Edwards Foundation: $450,000 (2016-2019)
- Franklin Center: $1,244,000 (2011-2012)
- Stand Together Fellowships: $22,000 (2017-2018)
- Stand Together Trust: $10,725,000 (2017-2021)
Atlas Network (PDF updated 11-30-23:
The enduring legacy of the East King of Sulu in Chinese-Filipino diplomacy
ON December 3 last year (2023), I embarked on a meaningful and soul-stirring journey to pay special and heartfelt tribute at the tomb of Sultan Paduka Batara, known as “Pahala,” at his sacred resting place in Dezhou, a captivating city in China’s Shandong province. It was indeed a momentous experience for me. It was also an educational and inspiring half-day trip.
The enduring legacy of the East King of Sulu in Chinese-Filipino diplomacy
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