I’M hoping that the third and final presidential debate will tackle more substantive issues like the Spratlys dispute between the Philippines and China, the economy and peace and order in Mindanao. I think the debate should focus…

Arbitration starts

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international tribunal ruled Thursday that it can take on a case between China and the Philippines over disputed territory in the South China Sea, overruling objections from Beijing that the arbitration body…

Tomorrow arrived yesterday

The “cartographic”—what? “Cartographic aggression” is shorthand for redrawing maps to gobble up territory, writes Australian Sinologist Geremie Barmé. And last week’s region-wide protests over Beijing’s clamping of new fishing access rules, in disputed portions of the South…