
A railway backed by the U.S. military… cutting straight through the heart of the Philippines. Is this the country’s most powerful infrastructure project yet?” In what’s being called a game-changer for Asia’s logistics and defense, the Subic to Batangas Railway Project is about to redraw the map of Philippine connectivity. Stretching 250 kilometers, this mega…
Is the Philippines Becoming the Next Maritime Superpower? Just weeks ago, the U.S. rolled in its game-changing SELKIE USV, an AI-powered, 500-nautical-mile endurance drone boat, right onto Philippine shores at Subic Bay, with licensed co‑production already on the table. And barely a month earlier, American Special Forces were caught training with Devil Ray T‑38 drone boats…
Have you heard of Mavulis Island? Most haven’t, but that’s about to change. Once dismissed as a remote, windswept outpost at the northern edge of the Philippines, Mavulis is now emerging as one of the most consequential islands in the Indo-Pacific. Just 140 kilometers from Taiwan and perched beside the Bashi Channel, a maritime chokepoint…
At dawn, local fishermen off the northern coast of Luzon scan the sky as they haul their nets, not just for weather, but for warplanes. Overhead, the thunder of Chinese jets patrolling Taiwan’s ADIZ has become part of the daily soundscape in 2025. Just beyond the horizon lies the Bashi Channel, a narrow maritime passage…