As the Obama administration executes its strategic “pivot” to the Western Pacific in the face of China’s military buildup, it is rediscovering the importance of a long-standing ally in the region.
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How to defend Panatag Shoal
The Manila Times
In April 2012, when the past regime lost Panatag Shoal, the Washington security think-tank Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) urged: “The United States needs to help the Philippines develop its own set of ‘anti-access/area denial’ capabilities to counter China’s growing power projection capabilities.”
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Change Is Coming to the US Alliance
Manila Times
In its 2012 study, “The Geostrategic Return of the Philippines,” the CSBA recommended marine surveillance planes to watch the seas, anti-ship coastal defenses to deter intruders, and aerial defense systems to defend the anti-ship missiles.
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US Buildup in Philippines Raises Stakes in Region
Stars and Stripes
Jan van Tol, a senior fellow at another Washington think tank, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said that operating from bases on Palawan would put U.S. forces close to the disputed Spratly Islands, where China has been reclaiming land and building airfields and other facilities. “More visits to the Philippines means more ships in the South China Sea,” he said in a telephone interview Tuesday.