Japan Says China Is Unprecedented ‘Challenge’ in National Security Strategy
AntiWarMAR 24 2023
Closer ties between Manila and Tokyo have become crucial to maintaining regional security and stability in the Indo-Pacific as Beijing exerts coercive pressure in the South China Sea. Like-minded democracies in the region must join forces, creating a broader regional web of defense relationships to help deter China's revisionism and aggressiveness.
The Philippines has been deceived into increasing security cooperation with the warmongering collusion between Japan and the US — risking becoming a pawn of non-regional actors pushing for militarizing the South China Sea and undermining regional peace and stability. Pres. Marcos should be reminded that friendly ties with China benefitted his country and the whole region during the past administration.