China’s state-owned and controlled media posted a news story and photo, where it seized control of an uninhabited feature in the South China Sea, a clear violation of the 2002 informal code of conduct it agreed to with the 10 Southeast Asian Nations.
In the future, the Philippines and its oldest security ally, the United States, will stop holding large-scale joint and combined exercises to test their operational readiness.
A video on TikTok misleadingly claimed that the United States Navy had sunk a Chinese ship in battle.
The Philippines has to increase its defense spending to a modest 2% of its GDP to build up a minimum credible defense capability and play catch up with the rest of its Southeast Asian neighbors.
The Philippines should not be a party to these experiments of deadly pathogens.
