“What Australian culture? Is it getting pissed while watching footy over a bbq?” That was a response to someone’s post on X: “We must preserve Australian culture!” I was stunned at the absurdity of the comment, so I waited a bit for someone else to provide an appropriate rebuttal but there was nothing deeper than…
Elfren Cruz was the head of the Presidential Management Staff during the presidency of Cory Aquino. The way he presents it in his PhilSTAR piece today “China’s great power ambitions”, the Philippines should join the “Quad” in an alliance against China. The Quad, writes Cruz, consists of “the four countries – India, United States, Japan,…
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