The Philippines and the maritime security order in Southeast Asia: The risks of an appeasement policy on an expansionist China

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Philippines > Foreign relations > China; China > Foreign relations > Philippines; Asian Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1822
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article examines the shift in Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte Administration, and how this development unravels the volatility of Southeast Asia's open, global, and liberal maritime order. His predecessor, President Benigno Aquino, challenged China's expansive territorial...