Linking spokes together: The Philippines' gambit of harnessing the United States' alliances in its external balancing policy against an emergent China

• Main Author: De Castro, Renato Cruz
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Philippines—Military relations—United States; United States—Military relations—Philippines; Alliances; Balance of power; International Relations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6217
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article examines the Philippines' strategy of external balancing against an aggressive China as it intensifies its security ties with the United States, its only strategic and long‐standing ally. This course of action aims to strengthen the country's defense relations with the United...