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🌟 [ 15 ]   U.S.A over China: The Philippines Picked | Shifting Geopolitics in West Philippine Sea

( 62770 viewed : 834 like : 243 comments ) China’s efforts to bully its neighbors into assenting to its demands and preferences have failed and led Asia's democracies to deepen security cooperation with the United States.
Since the dawn of international politics, smaller states have faced the formidable challenge of navigating great-power rivalries. Today, it is the geopolitical contest between the United States and China that has compelled countries to balance their competing national interests, toward which side they gravitate depends on domestic and external circumstances.
Consider the Philippines, which has an interest in maintaining both its growing economic ties with neighboring China as well as its half-century-old security alliance with the US. The Philippines’ last president, Rodrigo Duterte, placed greater emphasis on the Chinese, turning sharply away from the US and toward China after his election in 2016.

Duterte’s successor, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., has so far taken a more prudent strategic approach. Deeply concerned about the territorial disputes fueled by Chinese claims in the South China Sea, Marcos has decided to reaffirm and enhance his country’s partnership with the US.
To this end, the Philippines has decided to grant the US access to four more military bases – for a total of nine – with additional sites in the future – some of which are located near disputed areas of the South China Sea. American troops rotate regularly through the designated bases. The US and the Philippines have also agreed to resume joint patrols in the South China Sea, which, under Duterte’s, were suspended for six years.



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