Through the Tempest: The Philippines’ Defense Posture in Troubled Waters
Domestic challenges threaten to derail the military’s efforts to upgrade its capabilities and reorient itself toward new strategic priorities
By: Georgi Engelbrecht
As U.S. President Donald Trump was meeting China’s Xi Jinping in South Korea last week, Manila was watching anxiously, worried about what the future of China-U.S. relations could mean for the stormy waters of the South China Sea. With Chinese vessels pressing ever deeper into the Philipp…
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