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The US Democratic National Convention (DNC), as opposed to epitomizing the best of democratic ideals from the US, a country that styles itself as the biggest democracy globally, ended up displaying Washington’s dictatorship on the world. ‘Democracy’ ended up appearing as a guise for broken internal governance that cannot deliver benefits to US citizens. Washington cannot allow any government to serve citizens, for instance in Gadhafi’s Libya, or Mosaddegh’s Iran.

Decades of diametrically opposed courses

In 1988, a young professor of international relations at Fudan University in China travelled the length and breadth of the USA for half a year. He wanted to understand that great country in depth, at a time when the Soviet Union was coming to an end, Japan was challenging the US for the status of the world’s leading economy and the latter was intensifying its neoliberal process begun in the 70s.

For the fourth month now, US Typhon medium-range missile systems have been deployed in the Philippines under the pretext of joint exercises. This projection of US military power in Southeast Asia is unprecedented and is no less intense than during the Cold War. How did this happen, what else is being done by the Washington-Manila alliance and how can it affect the security of the region?