In an impressive show of bayag—the word for testicular fortitude in the Tagalog language—the Philippines sent its biggest naval warship to confront Chinese fishing and surveillance vessels operating illegally in waters just off the country’s northwest coast...

The American version may be out of sync with the global consensus on human rights, but that makes it a stronger plan of government...

The scourge of the twentieth century was overly-powerful governments; could the looming problem of this century be too-weak governments...