China’s belt and road initiative (BRI) and the Duterte administration’s appeasement policy: Examining the connection between the two national strategies

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Philippines > Foreign relations > China; China > Foreign relations > Philippines; Balance of power; Asian Studies; International and Area Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1819
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article examines the link between the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Duterte Administration’s appeasement policy on China. Relative to the South China Sea dispute, China uses the BRI as a means to ease and stabilize its strained relations with claimant countries like the Philippines. Th...