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

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Japan—Military relations > Philippines; Philippine—Military relations > Japan; China > Foreign relations; Asian Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1581; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/2580/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

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...