From antagonistic to close neighbors?: Twenty-first century Philippines-China relations

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Philippines—Foreign relations—China; China—Foreign relations—Philippines; International Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/384
• Institution: De La Salle University

This chapter examines the Philippines’ and China’s efforts to pursue a smooth and cooperative relation from the mid-1970s to the second decade of the twenty-first century. It argues that these bilateral relations have been beset by two systemic factors - the South China Sea dispute and the presence...