Under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the Philippines is raising its game to cope with an increasingly aggressive China.
In this podcast episode, hear why the Philippines’ strategy in the South China Sea shows it's ahead of the curve in terms of burden-sharing for security.
In The Straits Times’ Asian Insider Podcast above, global contributor Nirmal Ghosh delves into the current regional situation with his guests - former Philippine Navy rear admiral Rommel Ong, now professor of praxis at the Ateneo School of Government in the Philippines, and Dr. Colin Koh, senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The South China Sea is claimed almost in its entirety by China, but parts are also claimed by several other countries including Vietnam and the Philippines. Meanwhile, as the former US President looks to the Republican Party’s nomination as a mere formality - and with the election a toss-up, very possibly returning him to power - there are unmistakable signals that a new Republican administration would demand more defence spending from its allies.
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