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A fading American flag faces the ASEAN emblem and member flags under dark storm clouds beside a lone suited figure.

WHAT IF THE US STOPPED SUPPORTING ASEAN

A tiny percentage of vocal elites in the region who have become Pro-China are clamoring for separation from the United States. Complete cessation of American military activities in the ASEAN theater – closing access to facilities, ending rotations/exercises/training in the US, withdrawing any forward presence, and halting arms/funding aid –

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UFOs Over ASEAN

South China Sea tensions, gray-zone tactics, and the perennial question of whose little blue boats are really just fishing. Over the past five years, an unexpected wildcard has emerged — the “3rd Threat Element.”, aka. UFOs, UAPs, or as the more imaginative locals call them, visiting relatives from the stars.

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ASEAN English Proficiency

HOW ENGLISH HOLDS CHINA AT BAY

In his masterpiece 1955 book, The Triumph of the English Language, Author Richard Foster Jones presented a thorough academic outline on how the “Combined Tongues of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes” was able to supersede Latin and Greek in 16th – 17th century Britain and culminating in becoming the global

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The Gods are Hysterical

THE GODS ARE HYSTERICAL

Forget the nonstop “Trump, Trump, Trump!!” screams and click-baiting in America; Southeast Asia also knows how to produce good political theater. Lately the region’s ancient gods and goddesses appear to have grown bored with the usual script of scandals, dynasties, and carefully worded denials. So, they’ve hacked the simulation, cranked

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Philippine Coast Guard formally welcomed the Executive Director of the SeaLight Foundation, Mr. Raymond M. Powell

CALLING OUT TYRANNY:  THE PERSECUTION OF RAYMOND POWELL

In the contested gray-zone areas of the West Philippine Sea (WPS), where Chinese Coast Guard vessels, maritime militia, and PLAN units have repeatedly harassed Philippine fisherfolk, Coast Guard patrols, Navy missions, and outposts at Pag-Asa Island and Second Thomas Shoal, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Raymond M. Powell – Founder

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