New US missiles aim at China and Russia CenPEG Issue Analysis Center for People Empowerment in Governance 13 May 2026 The April 20 – May 8 Balikatan armed exercises between the Philippines and the United States marked a dangerous turning point in the country’s strategic and security landscape. More disturbing was the live firing of a US Tomahawk cruise missile from Tacloban City to a target site in Laur, Nueva Ecija using the Typhon Mid-Range Capability (MRC) missile system.

Foreign policy is torn between maritime tensions with China and close defense ties with the US APRIL 2026 MONTHLY POLITICAL ANALYSIS April 2026 marked the deepening of political rifts between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and his former electoral teammate, Vice President Sara Duterte. While political power gravitated toward the current president, such power is not enough to grapple with bitter economic woes as poverty levels deepened. Maritime tensions between t

Bobby M. Tuazon Iran is a battlefront curated by the US and Israel for regime change and for the control of its oil industry. A hypothetical defeat of Iran will make it expedient for the US to attack China, marginalize Russia, and rejuvenate its dying hegemonic interests. This scenario, however, is without empirical basis given the decline of the American empire and the accelerated rise of China while pushing the fragile US-centric unipolar world off the cliff in favor of a

Center for People’s Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Monthly Political Briefer March 2026 Introduction March 2026 saw an intensifying political polarization in the Philippines in the wake of various corruption scandals and a rapidly deteriorating global security environment after the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran. Domestically, rival elite factions, principally aligned with the Marcos and Duterte camps, continued to consolidate their respective bases in anticipation o