Richard Heydarian
@RichHeydarian
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Global affairs academic/ TV Host “The View From Manila”📚📺🖋️ “Deep Dive” “The Bridge” 🎙️Taekwondo 🥋 MMA buff; @UniOfOxford; @MunSecConf YL
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Top Export Market of G20 Economies: 🇦🇺 Australia -> 🇨🇳 China 🇧🇷 Brazil -> 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇩 Indonesia -> 🇨🇳 China 🇷🇺 Russia -> 🇨🇳 China 🇰🇷 South Korea -> 🇨🇳 China 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia -> 🇨🇳 China 🇿🇦 South Africa -> 🇨🇳 China 🇲🇽 Mexico -> 🇺🇸 U.S. 🇨🇦 Canada -> 🇺🇸 U.S. 🇯🇵 Japan -> 🇺🇸 U.S. 🇮🇳
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4/ As MIT Professor & former Pentagon advisor Ted Postol has explained: “You’d have to be completely deaf, dumb, or blind not to take this potential seriously.” Postol is one of America’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons & missile defense. https://t.co/0MK2faCz0C
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.
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The world’s oil wealth remains heavily concentrated in just a few countries🛢️
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To this date, Poland 🇵🇱 remains as one of the most eloquent voices on European solidarity in face of Russian aggression against Ukraine 🇺🇦 a snippet of my @sikorskiradek interview…
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In addition to columns for local/global publications & academic writings… and policy papers
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“So far, India’s embrace of China seems more tactical, aimed at signaling displeasure with Trump and reminding the world of New Delhi’s wide strategic options…” https://t.co/d29lIAGV8U
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Donald Trump’s protectionist policies and strained diplomacy have damaged U.S. relations with key allies, including India, which has responded by seeking closer ties with China. This emerging...
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I never did just one thing or one style. I got my TV show, which I do professionally and got a global bent/award pull, and my own YT channel, where I do it more informally a la “vlogger” to dispense w/ formality blah blah. Each has its own virtue & particular audience/appeal…
@macronikki They (and their shows) both have their flaws and virtues. Esguerra outshines Heydarian when looking at domestic politics (credentials aside, his presentation is simply more consistent), but the latter is at his best in his One News show. I watch both regularly.
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“The new ombudsman may represent the final chance by Marcos to forestall a potential Duterte comeback in 2028, if not ouster in his lame duck years in office,” my latest for @NikkeiAsia
https://t.co/xAWNjeoFuT
asia.nikkei.com
New ombudsman could expose the president's main opponents
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FYI, while we were busy with just the LATEST CORRUPTION scandals 🤦🤦🤦
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“IS CHINA 🇨🇳 OVERTAKING 🇺🇸!?”: a conversation w/ @jonczin of Brookings Institution on his new @ForeignAffairs magazine essay: “China Against China: Xi Jinping Confronts the Downsides of Success”, November/December 2025 See full episode https://t.co/wNazPYt01S
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Thanks @sharp_writing for corralling this so smoothly!!!
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“The new ombudsman may represent the final chance by Marcos to forestall a potential Duterte comeback in 2028, if not ouster in his lame duck years in office,” my latest for @NikkeiAsia
https://t.co/xAWNjeoFuT
asia.nikkei.com
New ombudsman could expose the president's main opponents
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“AN ASIAN NATO”: snippet of my conversation with Dr @elyratner on his latest @foreignaffairsmag essay: “The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact”: https://t.co/uQ51jw9qou
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