China – Batanes Islands (Hsi-Ting Pai – The Strategist) Now China is going after the Batanes Islands, a strategically crucial Philippine territory in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan. An assertion by a group of scholars in June that the Batanes belong to China is a familiar opening move in Beijing’s territorial narrative-building playbook. Their … Continue reading Geostrategic magazine (7 september 2026)