It began with a single image that ricocheted across social media feeds: a smiling Bengaluru tech CEO posing shoulder-to-shoulder with Elon Musk. The photo looked like the kind of casual backstage selfie that fuels modern celebrity mystique, authentic, unpolished, and instantly shareable. Adding to its allure was the caption: a bold quote attributed to Musk…
It was August 2025 when the world saw the unthinkable: a Chinese naval destroyer and a China Coast Guard cutter slamming into each other in chaotic pursuit of a much smaller Philippine ship near Scarborough Shoal. The incident, caught on video and broadcast worldwide, became the latest proof of how dangerous the contest for the…
Fresh satellite images have just blown the lid on what Beijing doesn’t want the world to see. Captured by Maxar Technologies, the photos show a battered Chinese Coast Guard ship docked at the Yulin Naval Base in Hainan, flanked by tugboats as crews scramble to repair its mangled frame. The most striking detail? A bow…
In the pre-dawn hours of 1999, retired Philippine Navy Vice Admiral Eduardo Santos orchestrated one of the most quietly audacious maneuvers in modern maritime history. Without fanfare, he piloted the aging landing ship BRP Sierra Madre across the restless waters of the South China Sea and deliberately ran it aground on the reef known internationally…
The South China Sea, a vital artery of global trade, has once again become the stage for a dangerous confrontation. In August 2025, the unprecedented collision between a Chinese naval destroyer and a China Coast Guard vessel while attempting to block a Philippine ship turned a simmering dispute into a geopolitical powder keg. The Philippine…
The Philippines stands at a critical crossroads, one that blends questions of justice, sovereignty, and survival. China’s aggression in the West Philippine Sea is intensifying, water cannons, ramming incidents, swarms of coast guard ships and Filipinos are asking: what more can Manila do? Among the loudest answers is a bold one: rejoin the International Criminal…
The Batanes Islands are the northernmost jewels of the Philippines, tiny, windswept, and breathtakingly beautiful. But geography is destiny. Just 200 kilometers from Taiwan, perched at the gateway of the Luzon Strait, these islands have transformed from a cultural treasure into a frontline chokepoint, a watchtower, and a potential tripwire in the Indo-Pacific. Their significance…
Footage just dropped: two small Filipino boats approaching Chinese Coast Guard vessels near Ren’ai Jiao or Second Thomas Shoal. The incident at Ren’ai Jiao unfolded in mid-August 2025, another chapter in the ever-tense standoff over the Second Thomas Shoal. To understand why every confrontation at Ren’ai Jiao feels like a spark in a powder keg,…
If you thought our last video on the Balikatan exercises was already intense, wait ‘til you hear this, just days ago, a fleet of U.S. A-10 “Warthog” attack jets thundered into Clark Air Base in the Philippines. That sound of engines ripping the skies? That wasn’t just aircraft landing, it was history touching down right…
The South China Sea, a flashpoint of power and pride, where overlapping claims and rising tensions have turned calm waters into one of the world’s most dangerous hotspots. For years, China has leaned on its sweeping “nine-dash line” , a claim already struck down by the Hague Tribunal in 2016, yet still enforced on the…
