Philippines

The U.S. ban of Huawei escalates the trade war with China, government and opposition representatives for Venezuela return to the negotiating table, and U.S. lawmakers fear skewed intelligence on Iran.

Iran responds to U.S. military presence in the Gulf, China and the United States reach a deadlock in the trade war, and what to watch in the world this week.

With larger powers in retreat, small countries and civil society groups have stepped up—and they have won some significant victories.

The removal of information from the State Department’s annual reports has grave consequences for human rights monitoring worldwide.

Trump has revived a four-way security dialogue among the United States, India, Australia, and Japan, but if it's going to make China pay attention, it will need some new members.

The Philippine president likes to pick fights. But can he win against the Catholic Church?

Tech companies are used to pairing big revenues with small labor forces. But they’ll soon be forced to become massive job creators.

Learning from the failure of the Responsibility to Protect and the International Criminal Court.

Local lawyers are fighting to hold the Philippine government accountable. To win, they need international human rights groups to give them more help.

Western democracies that were once reliable defenders of human rights have been consumed by a nativist backlash, leaving an open field for dictators and demagogues.

The 2017 Global Thinker hopes that the world will "keep watching the Philippines."

ISIS is looking to regroup, and is setting its sights eastward.

Conformity enables corruption

The United States ignores massive abuses at its own peril.

The president should use his trip to Asia to reassure allies and assert U.S. power.

Vietnam's capitulation shows China's neighbors fear the U.S. no longer has their backs.

The Philippines' new "war on drugs" is claiming thousands of lives. But the culture of vigilante violence started with anti-communism.

The Philippines’ unbridled war on terror looks uncomfortably like its war on drugs.

In a private phone conversation, the two presidents chatted about nuclear submarines and a drug campaign that has killed thousands.

U.S. presidents and Cabinet officials have met with worse than Duterte, but the Philippine leader is all but invigorating China's rise.