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POLITICS3d agoDP chief confirms Shincheonji members joined party before leadership voteDemocratic Party chief Kim Min-seok said an internal review confirmed that a substantial number of Shincheonji Church members joined the party ahead of its August leadership convention.koreajoongangdaily_joins · south korea
POLITICS3d agoJapan urges Russia to ensure 'impartial treatment' for arrested journalistTokyo said Wednesday it had urged Moscow to ensure "fair and impartial treatment" for a Japanese journalist who was arrested by Russia on suspicion of espionage. Russia's foreign…Japan Today
POLITICS3d agoWill South China Sea’s code of conduct remain elusive as deadline looms?A long-awaited code of conduct (COC) for the South China Sea risks becoming a toothless agreement, analysts have warned, as Beijing and Southeast Asian nations scramble to hammer out a deal by the end of 2026. More than three decades since it was mooted, the proposed pact has remained gridlocked over how to balance competing territorial claims among China and four rival claimant states – Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and the Philippines. Maritime experts speaking at a conference in Kuala Lumpur this...South China Morning Post
POLITICS3d agoFarm chief appears to backtrack on legality issue over free voter bus ridesEmbattled Japanese farm minister Kazuo Yana said Wednesday he has decided to resign over controversies surrounding his past behavior in his constituency, in a major blow to her…Japan Today
POLITICS3d agoNew bridge linking China and North Korea will open more than a decade lateA new bridge linking China and North Korea is set to open more than a decade after the Chinese side of it was built, in the latest sign of closer ties between the two countriesABC News
POLITICSBREAKING3d agoChina and North Korea to open border bridge after unexplained 12-year delayA bridge between China and North Korea that was completed 12 years ago will finally open on Thursday. The two countries will hold an opening ceremony to mark the official opening of the New Yalu River Bridge, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday morning. Last week, signs that the bridge would soon open were spotted, including vehicles crossing and traffic lights and bridge indicators being activated, according to South Korean newspaper The Chosun Daily. The bridge links the...South China Morning Post
POLITICS3d agoEurope Today: Spanish FM on Euronews, Black Sea drone attacks, EU-China resetSpain is under pressure on multiple fronts: war in Ukraine, a housing crisis, snap elections, and tension with Morocco over Ceuta. In an exclusive interview, Foreign Minister Albares tells how Madrid is coping. Plus: Drone attacks in the Black Sea, an EU-China reset, and Ireland's EU budget plan.EuroNews [en]
POLITICS3d agoTaiwan states it plans to invest up to $4.4 billion in the Alaska pipelineTaiwán proyecta invertir $4,400 millones en gas natural de Alaska, fortaleciendo lazos energéticos con EE.UU. tras intensas negociaciones. El acuerdo busca diversificar el suministro energético taiwanés, comenzando en 2032, y consolidar la cooperación bilateral en un marco de beneficio mutuo.Clarín
POLITICS3d agoChina and India Want Much the Same Things From South AsiaThe two countries have reset bilaterally and internationally. Now it’s time to think regionally.Foreign Policy
POLITICS3d agoThe Autumn Myanmar Turned PrettyIt’s been a week of diplomatic breakthroughs for the junta.Foreign Policy
POLITICS3d agoTrump claims Taiwan agreed to massive 20-year Alaska LNG dealFormer President Trump claims that Taiwan has agreed to a large 20-year liquified natural gas deal involving Alaska. This indicates a potential significant international energy agreement, albeit one reported by a political figure.Seeking Alpha Tech
POLITICS3d agoTrump says Taiwan agreed to buy 30 percent of gas from Alaska pipelinePresident Trump announced Tuesday that Taiwan has agreed to purchase 30 percent of gas from the Alaska pipeline over the next 20 years. Speaking at a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska, Trump said Taiwan will invest $4.4 billion into the project on top of $50 billion already committed by South Korea. The president was quick…The Hill
POLITICS3d agoWhy younger Japanese now fear Trump’s US more than ChinaA growing number of Japanese regard the United States as the greatest threat to world peace ahead of traditional rival China, according to a new survey. The annual poll, released by the Japan Press Research Institute on Saturday, found 26.8 per cent of respondents named the US as the biggest threat to global peace. That was up 9.3 percentage points on last year and far above the 6.6 per cent recorded in 2024. Russia came top of the list in 2025 but slipped to third place this year, with 18.3 per...South China Morning Post
POLITICSBREAKING3d agoRussia detains Japanese journalist on suspicion of spying⁠Russia’s FSB security agency said on ⁠Tuesday it had detained a Japanese journalist ⁠for alleged espionage, and Moscow’s foreign ministry said it regretted that Tokyo was using correspondents to carry out spying. In a statement on its website, the FSB said the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper journalist was detained in the far eastern Sakhalin region on the day before he planned to leave Russia. It did ‌not specify when this was. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a statement...South China Morning Post
POLITICS3d agoTrump press secretary Katie Zacharia says she passed bar exam in China, raising eyebrowsKatie Zacharia, US President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House press secretary, faces questions about her legal credentials after telling reporters on Tuesday that she passed a bar exam “when I moved to China”, without identifying the jurisdiction. Zacharia, who has repeatedly described herself as a lawyer, made the remark after her first official White House press briefing. According to her LinkedIn profile, she worked as an associate at Zhong Lun Law Firm, one of China’s largest, in...South China Morning Post
POLITICS3d agoJapanese journalist arrested in Russia on suspicion of spyingA Japanese journalist has been arrested in Russia and accused of gathering information on its defence capabilities, news agencies report.Sky News World
POLITICS3d agoRussia arrests Japanese reporter for alleged espionageSuspect was arrested on Russia's far-eastern Sakhalin Island before being transferred to Moscow, says Russia's FSB.Al Jazeera [en]
POLITICS3d agoRussia Detains Japanese Journalist for Alleged EspionageThe main security service said it had detained a reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper in Russia’s far east, where he had been reporting on military recruitment.NYT World
POLITICS3d agoTrump: China, Russia ‘have too much to lose’ to help IranPresident Trump late Monday accused China and Russia of having “too much to lose” to enable Iran in the ongoing conflict. “I see so many comments from the Radical Left Morons and Lunatics that China and Russia are helping the ‘wonderful’ Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If they are, it’s at…The Hill
POLITICS3d ago'We'll Keep Waiting': Afghanistan's Dead-End Road To ChinaSatellite imagery sourced by RFE/RL confirms Taliban claims they have completed a road that leads up to China's remote border with Afghanistan. However there is no indication Beijing intends to open the militarized boundary any time soon.RFE/RL
POLITICS3d agoHow Maroš Šefčovič talked his way to a China trade breakthroughEurope’s trade chief has won a first concession from Beijing. Now he must convince EU leaders that dialogue can deliver more.Politico Europe
POLITICS3d agoMarcos’ impeachment plot backfiresPRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. undertook the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte to block the shoo-in for the presidency in 2028, so he could get somebody to his liking. If that was the strategy, the latest evidence suggests it has backfired — not because Sara has been untouched by controversy, but because the proceedings have transformed her from an embattled vice president into the country’s most visible opposition figure. The persecution against her has only strengthened her charisma. That fits with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous aphorism: “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” The more the administration has tried to claim Sara Duterte’s guilt, on trial, the more the public has placed Marcos Jr. and his government on trial. The impeachment was intended to test Sara’s fitness for office. Instead, it has intensified doubts about the administration’s motives, performance and morality. Indeed, Marcos’ minions have become so desperate as to even accuse Sara, as Philippine Star columnist and former Estrada go-fer Ronaldo Llamas did, of being a “traitor” for being linked to a company that was exporting products to China. Does this idiot think that tycoons like Lucio Tan, the Sys of SM, Ramon Ang of San Miguel, the Gokongweis and Carlos Chan, who all have operations in China, as well as the 1,200 local companies that exported to China last year the equivalent of 11 percent of the country’s total exports, are traitors? The other day, the prosecution presented a witness who claimed Sara had billions in unexplained wealth. His basis — “documents” that the prosecution supplied him that he pored over in only three weeks, without even trying to get Sara and her husband’s explanation — crucial in one-topic documents like tax returns and AMLC reports. While he claims to be a forensic accountant, he is not: he is not certified by the Philippine Institute of Certified Forensic Accountants. He is an anti-Sara Yellow activist, having been with groups that have been demanding her impeachment since last year, and had even met with Leni Robredo late last year, for reasons he did not disclose. The strongest evidence that Marcos’ impeachment project has backfired is the latest Pulse Asia presidential preference survey conducted from Sept. 17 to 24, 2026. Sara leads every hypothetical presidential contest presented. She receives 52 percent in a three-way race against former vice president Leni Robredo and Sen. Raffy Tulfo, 57 percent against Sen. Erwin Tulfo and Sen. Risa Hontiveros, 57 percent against Erwin Tulfo and Sen. Bam Aquino, 54 percent against Robredo in a two-way race, and 60 percent against Hontiveros. Message The survey results offer a clear political message: The impeachment has not produced the collapse in Sara’s support that the Marcos camp wanted. The most politically significant result is the 52 percent-30 percent-14 percent in a three-way contest involving Sara, Robredo and Raffy Tulfo. Sara leads Robredo by 22 percentage points and Tulfo by 38 points. More important, however, is the consistency of her advantage. Sara does not lead in only one favorable matchup. She remains ahead when the names are changed, when the field expands and when she faces a rival one-on-one. In the two-way contest against Robredo, Sara leads 54 percent to 40 percent. Against Hontiveros, she leads 60 percent to 23 percent. That consistency points to a durable political base that has survived the impeachment campaign and has even been strengthened by it. Contrast The latest presidential preference figures also become more meaningful when placed beside earlier 2026 data. A Pulse Asia survey conducted from Feb. 27 to March 2 presented Sara in a six-way field and gave her 43 percent, followed by Leni Robredo at 27 percent and Raffy Tulfo at 19 percent. In separate head-to-head matchups, Sara led Robredo 51 percent to 43 percent, while she and Tulfo were tied at 46 percent each. The more recent September survey the shows Sara at 52 percent in the three-way Duterte-Robredo-Tulfo contest, compared with 43 percent in the earlier six-way field. That represents a nine-point increase. The political direction is striking. In March, Sara was either slightly leading or tied with her principal potential rivals. By September, she was leading decisively in every candidate set shown. Lead Her lead over Robredo also widened. In the February-March survey, Sara led Robredo by eight points, 51 percent to 43 percent. In the September two-way contest, her advantage was 14 points, 54 percent to 40 percent. These figures show that the impeachment has not damaged Sara’s presidential prospects. Her position has even become more secure. Sara’s Mindanao base is the foundation of her national lead. A 94-percent preference rating in the region is not merely a favorable result; it is an extraordinary territorial base. She also performed strongly among all socioeconomic groups, receiving 47 percent among Class ABC respondents, 50 percent among Class D and 70 percent among Class E. It is her huge Mindanao base, and her corps of articulate believers in social media, which makes implausible the scenario claimed by Marcos minions that, as in the case of candidate Jojo Binay in 2016, the constant barrage of black propaganda will reduce her votes by election day. But Binay never had a solid base of support as Sara does with her Mindanao and social media followers. As important is the fact that Binay’s support eroded not just because of the Yellows’ black propaganda: it was because a charismatic figure, Rodrigo Duterte, emerged to claim his base. The Marcos minions’ strategy was to bribe senator-judges enough so that there would be the required votes to convict Sara. This indeed worked in late chief justice Renato Corona’s impeachment trial, with President Benigno Aquino III giving the senator judges P100 to P150 million each in pork-barrel funding through the so-called Disbursement Acceleration Plan, getting 20 senators to vote Corona guilty. But Marcos has run out of time for this strategy because the first impeachment move was delayed for a year as the case that there cannot be more than one such move per year was brought before the Supreme Court. Hence, the Marcos minions had to wait a year to file another impeachment case. Penultimate As a result, the Marcos-controlled House of Representatives got to undertake the impeachment process only this year, which is the penultimate year for Marcos’ presidency. This is in contrast to Corona’s impeachment which was undertaken at the middle of the Aquino presidency in 2012, and when his popularity was at its height. This means that senators hoping to profit from Marcos’ largesse if they convict Sara will have only a very limited time, one fiscal year, to do so. Worse for them, the administration has been hit by the worst scandal ever in our history, the ghost flood control corruption scandal, which has, with a more vigilant citizenry, made pork-barrel type of bribes difficult. Because of that scandal, senators who would have been easily bribed during Marcos’ first years would be hesitant to follow his orders: Why should they when he is now a lame duck? The Marcos minions also made a huge mistake in calling Sara’s brother Sebastian “Baste” to the witness stand. Baste proved to have such gravitas that he could replace Sara if she is found guilty and banned from running for the presidency in 2028. The winning Duterte brand could be easily be transferred to Baste. Think about it this way: If Sara accompanies Baste in each and every rally, and if his campaign materials all show his sister raising his hand, voters would not hesitate to check the “Duterte” box in the ballot. Filipinos after all did not vote Benigno Aquino III because they believed that he was qualified just because he carried the Aquino brand. It will be the same phenomenon if it is Baste who runs for the presidency. Marcos and his minions certainly deserve such karmic twist: They spent billions of pesos and expended so much energy to block Sara from being president, yet in the end, it is her brother who will run and win the presidency. Marcos’ minions have actually been on a very wrong tack. About a year and a half to the May 2028 elections, Robredo is still stuck in Naga City in political limbo. No way for Erwin to be anything but senator in 2028. With the elections on the horizon, they find themselves with no viable candidate. Facebook: Rigoberto Tiglao X: @bobitiglao Website: www.rigobertotiglao.commanilatimes · philippines
POLITICS3d agoIs this the best time for US strategists to push for abandoning ambiguity on Taiwan?For nearly five decades, the United States’ Taiwan policy has centred on strategic ambiguity by not declaring whether it would intervene militarily in a potential Taiwan conflict. This policy – designed to deter Beijing from using force while preventing Taipei from formally declaring independence – is being challenged by realist US strategists amid a broader debate over America’s role in the world, growing constraints on US military might and a shifting regional balance of power driven by...South China Morning Post
POLITICS3d agoTaiwanese finance minister plans to join Apec meeting in Hong KongTaiwanese Finance Minister Chuang Tsui-yun plans to attend the Apec meeting in Hong Kong, where the Chinese finance chief is due to deliver the opening speech. Chuang’s ministry told Reuters on Tuesday she would attend the meeting “as is customary”. Hong Kong is hosting the Apec Finance Ministers’ Meeting on October 20 and 21, while the Economic Leaders’ Summit will take place in Shenzhen next month. China is the summit host for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this year. In response...South China Morning Post
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