Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress and Philippine Council for Foreign Relations
Based in Manila, Aaron Jed Rabena is a research fellow at Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress and a member of the Philippine Council for Foreign Relations. His areas of interest include strategic studies, East Asian geopolitics and multilateralism, political risk, and Chinese politics and foreign policy.
The Chinese-Filipino community has called for dialogue and diplomacy but has been branded by some in the Philippines as Chinese first and Filipino second.