THE military bases that two Philippine administrations have authorized the United States armed forces to use are crucial to America s military superiority in Southeast Asia, Gregory Poling, a top American strategist on the South China Sea issue claimed in his most recent book Dangerous Ground.
I HAVE written so many columns and a book debunking the US narrative on the South China Sea (SCS) disputes swallowed hook, line, and sinker by our elite as well as by the administrations of Aquino 3rd and even implicitly Marcos Jr. The crux of this narrative is that China is an expansionist power and intends to occupy all of the waters and features of the SCS.
One Chinese analyst said the PLA had ‘no choice’ but to act after a close encounter between two warships that the US attacked as ‘unsafe and unprofessional’