In view of global economic prospects, the Philippines has opted for policies that support its economic goals the least. What happened to Philippine diplomacy? IN the past 3 to 4 years, the Philippines has opted for a kind of foreign economic policy that is most likely to undermine its emerging market future.How should we assess such risks? To keep the perspective neutral, let’s use comparative international frameworks. Amid geoeconomic fragmentation and Cold War 2Since the first Trump administration, global economic prospects have been drastically constrained by trade wars. In the early 2020s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) adopted the term...