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Caught between appeasement and limited hard balancing: the Philippines' changing relations with the eagle and the dragon
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Abstract After five years of pursuing a policy of appeasement towards China, the Philippines is incrementally and reluctantly shifting to "limited hard balancing." The goal is to constrain China's revisionist agenda in the South China Sea. This strategy entails building up the Philippine military's territori... mehr
After five years of pursuing a policy of appeasement towards China, the Philippines is incrementally and reluctantly shifting to "limited hard balancing." The goal is to constrain China's revisionist agenda in the South China Sea. This strategy entails building up the Philippine military's territorial defence capabilities, maintaining its alliance with the U.S., and forging security partnerships with other middle power like South Korean, Japan, and Australia. During his six-year term, the late President Benigno Aquino III stood up to China's expansive claim in the South China Sea. When Rodrigo Roa Duterte assumed the presidency in June 2016, he unravelled his predecessor's balancing policy towards China. Nonetheless, recent developments such as the People's Liberation Army Navy's hostile moves against the Armed Forces of the Philippines units on Philippine-occupied islands in the South China Sea and the delays in the promised Chinese public investments in the country prompted the Duterte Administration to review the appeasement approach and to mull over on a limited hard balancing policy. In conclusion, this article contends that the Duterte Administration is at the crossroads, figuring out if it will continue its appeasement stance or adopt a limited hard balancing policy towards China.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Philippinen; Südostasien; Außenpolitik; politische Strategie; internationale Beziehungen; bilaterale Beziehungen; Geopolitik; China; USA
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
bilateraler internationaler Konflikt; Internationale Politik; Militärische Kooperation; Südchinesisches Meer; Verteidigungs- und sicherheitsbezogene Beziehungen
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 258-278
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 41 (2022) 2
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)