Ray Powell on LinkedIn: Philippines Expecting Further Chinese Escalation in South China Sea…
🇵🇭 #Philippines Expecting Further 🇨🇳Chinese Escalation in #SouthChinaSea, Official Says After a tumultuous 2023, the Philippines is set for another year…
Ray Powell
From the article: "🇵🇭 #Philippines Expecting Further 🇨🇳Chinese Escalation in #SouthChinaSea, Official Says
After a tumultuous 2023, the Philippines is set for another year of confrontation in contested waters.
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As Ray Powell, the director of the SeaLight project at Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, told Newsweek last month, #China 'seeks to outlast the Philippines at Second Thomas Shoal until either the ship breaks up or otherwise becomes uninhabitable, or until Manila grows weary of running the blockade.'
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Sebastian Strangio writing in The Diplomat"