The Aquino administration's balancing policy against an emergent China: Its domestic and external dimensions

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Balance of power; Philippines > Foreign relations > China; China > Foreign relations > Philippines; Philippines > Foreign relations > United States; United States > Foreign relations > Philippines; Philippine Sea > Boundaries > South China Sea; South China Sea > Boundaries > Philippine Sea; International Relations; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/555
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article examines why and how small powers balance big powers. One such small power is the Philippines, which-despite its military weakness- applies a balancing policy on an emergent China relative to the South China Sea imbroglio. Largely, this balancing policy is the upshot of three developmen...