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The Philippines Is a Flashpoint in the U.S.-China Cold War
America’s longtime ally in the Pacific has been trending toward China under Rodrigo Duterte.
New friends.
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Third in a five-part series on countries at the center of the U.S.-China rivalry. Read part one here, part two here , part four here and part five here.
As discussed in a previous column of this series, the U.S. requires a firm alliance with Europe, and particularly Germany, to compete globally with China. Yet the outcome of that rivalry also rests fundamentally on the strength of U.S. relationships with the countries encircling China’s East Asian and Southeast Asian periphery.