The writer says the Philippines should focus on resolving the climate emergency and social inequities, and preventing future pandemics. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANILA - On June 29, 2022, as the war rages in Ukraine after the Russian invasion, the Rim of the Pacific War Exercises 2022 began in our region.
Its European members are a regular presence in the South China Sea, invoking"freedom of navigation." Nato has become a military alliance with a global interventionist role, which started with Yugoslavia, Syria, and Libya.
With a single overseas military base in Djibouti, Africa, China still maintains Mackinder's Heartland strategy of being a continental land power through its economic strategy in its Belt and Road Initiative , thus following Sun Tzu's dictum of"the enemy without fighting." Through the BRI, China intends to engage in a global infrastructure for trade and investments by linking the world's economic corridors from Asia, Europe, and Africa.
But this fierce geopolitical competition between the US and China inevitably involves the Philippines because of its geostrategic location. Will we continue to be a de facto US aircraft carrier and part of the US nuclear infrastructure? The Mutual Defence Treaty, the Visiting Forces Agreement, and the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement make us part of the offensive island chain of encirclement against neighbouring China.
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