Exploring a 21st-century Japan-Philippine security relationship: Linking two spokes together?

The article examines Tokyo's efforts to link the Philippine and the Japanese security spokes in the face of Beijing's moves to widen the cleavage between both countries' alliances with the U.S. and render them irrelevant. The article concludes that Manila and Tokyo must first reconfig...

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Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
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Published: Animo Repository 2009
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Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1581
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Institution: De La Salle University
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Summary:The article examines Tokyo's efforts to link the Philippine and the Japanese security spokes in the face of Beijing's moves to widen the cleavage between both countries' alliances with the U.S. and render them irrelevant. The article concludes that Manila and Tokyo must first reconfigure a defense relationship that is not merely a military aggregation but a political apparatus enabling them to constructively engage an emergent China. © 2009 by The Regents of the University of California.