I've gotta say, I respect them for this decision. They are facing down a dragon with but a sword and shield. West Taiwan is going to continue to escalate as they try all their different options. However, each time West Taiwan does, it shows the world how unreasonable they are being. Their ridiculous claims over the South China Sea are causing many a problem. . .
Philippines Rejects U.S. in South Chine Sea
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>Philippines Rejects U.S. in South Chine Sea
The article really doesn’t say anything of the sort? Why use a made up headline?
Calling china as west Taiwan is just so childish.
Another regime change loading…
They said they’d try to deal with it themselves before resorting to help from the U.S. It doesn’t say that they refused help from the US.
Also that’s fine…it’s not like the U.S isn’t chilling nearby…with bases in Japan, and 8 bases in the Philippines itself.
Headline is misleading, as they are still cooperating. All it says is that Manila knows that US help would be highly provocative and fuel the Chinese propaganda narrative that the Philippines is no more than a geopolitical pawn of Washington.
The main reason Marcos has decided to take a more assertive stance on the territorial dispute is the failure of his predecessor to resolve the dispute with an appeasment approach and a desire to bring international attention and ultimately, in the long term, force Beijing to back down.