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Security politics, Balikatan 2027 connection and the expanding US military footprint in PH

The Manila Times 28 Aug

Philippines

Security politics, Balikatan 2027 connection and the expanding US military footprint in PH — Sources: The Manila Times

APPARENTLY, in today’s Philippines, a steel bar no longer needs to only pass tensile strength, elongation and quality tests. It may also need geopolitical clearance. That is increasingly the impression created by the widening Marcos government campaign against supposedly “Chinese-linked” steel plants. Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (Paocc) chief Benjamin Acorda Jr.

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