Filipinos express concerns about the possibility of war with China due to the United States' strategy of out-competing China and constraining Russia. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. portrays the Philippines as the 'front line' of a potential Asian conflict.
FEW Filipinos expect war with China this year or the next. Otherwise, we'd be conducting air raid drills, building bomb shelters and calling up army reserves.Stocks and the peso would tank, and we would hoard rice, medicine, oil and other essential imports. Plus, Filipinos in China , Hong Kong, and Macao would have to brace for evacuation.But those warning of war, including President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Hence, to defuse incidents, Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping agreed to resume military-to-military communications during their meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco last November.Military factors also give pause to Beijing and Washington. The People's Liberation Army , China's armed forces, still needs years to catch up in key weaponry, including warplanes, submarines, warships, aircraft carriers and precision-guided munitions.
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