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It will always remain the army of Kim
Jong Un, defending him unto death
and upholding his leadership only.
~ Choe Ryong Have, the North Korean leader’s
reputed top adviser, addressing soldiers days
after Jan Song Thaek’s execution
11���TECHNOLOGYThe High-Tech CityAs urbanization spreads, cities harness
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,W�WHOOV�XV�D�ORW�DERXW��¿UVW�RI�DOO��how ruthless and reckless he is.
And it also tells us a lot about how
insecure he is …
~ U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s purge
and execution of his uncle Jan Song Thaek
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17��EDUCATIONEducating One ASEANPhilippine colleges and
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You Can Run, But You Can’t HideThe problem with some problems is that they eventually catch up with you. Sure, you can pretend they’re not there, like the silent swelling of cities from hundreds or thousands of new settlers arriving from the countryside left behind by the metropolitan rush for higher incomes, higher education, and higher class. Eventually, the city limits push outward, the VN\OLQH�XSZDUG��DQG�WKH�WUDI¿F�ZD\ZDUG��7KHQ�WKHUH¶V�QR�KLGLQJ�IURP�WKH�SUREOHPV�RI�WRR�PDQ\�SHRSOH�DQG�FDUV��WRR�PXFK�fumes and trash.
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On the international stage, geopolitical realities quietly building for decades assert themselves and intrude on national DIIDLUV��,Q�������HFRQRPLHV�RI�WKH�$VVRFLDWLRQ�RI�6RXWKHDVW�$VLDQ�1DWLRQV�ORRN�VHW�WR�¿QDOO\�RSHQ�XS�WR�RQH�DQRWKHU��7KH�market integration had been delayed several times over the past decade, with the 2015 start somewhat watered down. But the imperative toward more open markets and tougher global competition cannot be held back forever. If ASEAN doesn’t do it, other markets that do will zoom past it in the race for trade and investment.
And then there’s China. That it is a global economic power has been acknowledged worldwide. However, the hope in some quarters was that the nation of 1.3 billion people would be content to make money, not war. Fat chance, seasoned historians would say. With wealth comes power, and even if resurgent China does not make Saddam Hussein’s mistake RI�DFWXDOO\�LQYDGLQJ�D�QHLJKERULQJ�VWDWH��LW�VWLOO�ZLOO�ÀH[�LWV�EXUJHRQLQJ�PLOLWDU\�PLJKW�LQ�D�FDOFXODWHG��FDOLEUDWHG�ZD\��$IWHU�all, every emerging big power did so in centuries past, including the United States of 1823, less than half a century since Independence, telling European empire builders to keep off the Western Hemisphere.
In sum, even as problems and challenges can be conveniently ignored or wished away for a time, they eventually must be faced. In this instalment of The CenSEI Report, the above-mentioned issues of the bursting metropolis, motherhood vs. FDUHHU��$6($1�LQWHJUDWLRQ��DQG�&KLQD¶V�PLOLWDU\�ULVH��DUH�MRLQHG��$QG�KDOI�WKH�EDWWOH�RI�VROYLQJ�WKHP�OLHV�LQ�DFNQRZOHGJLQJ�they’re here and won’t go away. So take a deep breath and leap.
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$�LQFRQYHQLHQW�VHW�RI�IDFWV��Business Insider, in a Nov. 12 blog post by Gus Lubin, presents 21 telling charts that show, in one way or another, how the rich have cleaned up in the United States and left everyone else scrounging for
scraps not just last year or this year, but over the past couple of decades.
Not one big, neat, catchy infographic, not a dramatic video, but still a must-see for anyone who still thinks the United States is the
land of opportunity. Put another way, it might still be the land of the free, EXW�LW·V�DOVR�EHFRPH�WKH�KRPH�RI�the very rich surrounded by a whole other country of those who are steadily losing ground. Read them and weep.
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Helping Working Women Cope with Motherhood
As more women go to work, their having to choose between careers and motherhood will affect the workplace
STRATEGY POINTSParenting programs in the workplace can help employed parents increase their commitment and productivity, a Telegraph article suggests
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HELPING WORKING WOMEN COPE WITH MOTHERHOOD
A recent article from Britain’s The Telegraph suggests that as employed
parents struggle to balance their
UHVSRQVLELOLWLHV�DW�KRPH�DQG�DW�WKH�RFH��¿UPV�FDQ�VXSSRUW�WKHP�E\�LQWURGXFLQJ�D�ZRUNSODFH�parenting program that teaches how to be a better
parent. This proposal, the Nov. 3 article suggests, can
increase commitment and build practical skills that
“make employees more productive and reduce the
DPRXQW�RI�WLPH�ZRUNHUV�WDNH�R�EHFDXVH�RI�FKLOG�related issues at home.”
,PSDFW�RI�PRWKHUKRRG�RQ�FDUHHUV�FDQ�EH�EUXWDO��The impact of motherhood on the careers
of women can be brutal. In Japan, the biggest
reason why Japanese women quit their jobs after
childbirth is that “working hours make child care
unfeasible,” according to government statistics cited
in a BBC report in March. Roughly 70% of Japanese
ZRPHQ�TXLW�ZRUNLQJ�DIWHU�JLYLQJ�ELUWK�WR�WKHLU�¿UVW�child. This is despite the fact that that the number
of employed women has risen steadily for the past
decade, and that Japanese women are more likely to
have a university degree than men.
factors such as the high cost of both private and
state nurseries, along with Japanese fathers making
a relatively limited contribution to child care, hinder
the presence of Japanese women in the workplace.
“If you want to keep working you have to forget about
your children, you have to just devote yourself to the
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law, is quoted as saying in the report. She no longer
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As a result, working women in Japan refuse to settle
down and have children, according to an october
article in The Guardian, citing the example of
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romantic relationships so she can focus on work.
According to her, a woman’s chances of promotion
in Japan stop dead as soon as she marries, primarily
because when a woman becomes pregnant, the long,
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In South Korea, “gender discrimination is still very
ingrained in mainstream business,” according to
“A more diverse workplace: Increasing women’s
power in Korea,” a 2013 report from global executive
VHDUFK�¿UP�Heidrick & Struggles. In the report, Dr.
yang Hee Kim, former senior researcher at Seoul’s
VWDWH�UXQ�.RUHDQ�:RPHQ¶V�'HYHORSPHQW�,QVWLWXWH��explains: “While many women often cite the reason
for leaving their jobs as needing to provide childcare
at home, it is usually a combination of this plus the
pressure to provide children with the best education
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A demanding work environment and the strong
Korean work ethic have prevented many Korean
women from going back to work after their maternity
leave. The report notes: “Women seem pressed to
meet the opposing demands of career and family,
while the men are often free to network after work,
without the stress of children’s homework and
household chores.”
7KH�´GRXEOH�EXUGHQµ�RI�ZRPHQ�LQ�$VLD� According to a June 2012 McKinsey & Company
report, “Women Matter: An Asian Perspective,
Harnessing female talent to raise corporate
performance,” 40% of business leaders surveyed
ranked the “double burden” of women in Asia—
holding a job while looking after their families—as
the major barrier preventing women from moving
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into senior roles in the corporate world. Moreover,
30% of business leaders said many or most women
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China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, family duties
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7KH�UDWHV�RI�IHPDOH�ODERU�IRUFH�SDUWLFLSDWLRQ�LQ�WKH�labor force tend to be generally lower in Asia than
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following chart.
Female labor participation rates in Asia tend to be lower than in the West McKinsey & Company
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The McKinsey report suggests that “If the goal is
to feed the corporate pipeline with more potential
female leaders, the double burden will have to be
DGGUHVVHG�±�QR�HDV\�WDVN�JLYHQ�FHUWDLQ�GHHS�VHDWHG�cultural views, often held by women as well as men.”
“A corporate culture in which a manager’s
commitment is gauged by whether he or she is
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responsibilities to succeed,” the report continues. In
the end, a failure to retain and recruit able women
can only worsen the acute talent shortage that many
companies operating in Asia face, it warns.
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well as governments around the world have sought
to address the issue of greater female representation
in the workplace through various interventions. The
South Korean government, for instance, provides
loans or subsidies to businesses in order to build
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women at junior levels.
Also cited in the report is the case of Taiwan, where
Taiwanese women are entitled to six months of
paid maternity leave at 60% of their salary on top
of eight weeks on full pay. Since its introduction in
2009, about 65,000 employees have applied for the
allowance. This level of maternity provision, the
report emphasizes, is rare in Asia.
/RQJHU�PDWHUQLW\�OHDYHV� In the United States,
technology giant google, for its part, has “lavish
maternity and paternity leaves,” according to a
January article in Slate discussing how google
became such a great place to work. Its People
operations department examined the problem of
many women leaving the company and found out
that women who had recently given birth were
leaving at twice google’s departure rate.
$W�WKH�WLPH��WKH�WHFK�JLDQW�RHUHG�DQ�LQGXVWU\�standard maternity leave plan, which was 12 weeks
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popularity. In her March piece in The Atlantic,
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workers’ productivity at work while trying to meet
responsibilities at home.
failing to recognize the needs of mothers in the
workplace will force these women to give up their
jobs, causing the company to lose out on valuable
female talent. Conversely, as
more and more women in Asia
become empowered to move
up the corporate ladder, plans
of having a family have taken
a back seat—a move which
does not bode well for aging
societies such as Japan.
“Progress toward higher
female representation in
senior management,” the
McKinsey report notes, “is
likely to require action by governments, the wider
business community, and individual companies.”
A Booz & Company report on “Empowering the Third
Billion: Women and the World of Work in 2012”
posits nearly 1 billion women around the world will
enter the global economy in the coming decade.
Evidence discussed in the report suggests women
can be powerful drivers of economic growth. And
yet, this sector has not received enough attention
from business leaders, governments, or key decision
makers in many countries.
Moreover, the report posits that greater women
involvement can, indeed, have a profound impact. for
instance, the report says women are more likely than
men to invest a large proportion of their household
income in the education of their children. As such,
those children’s improved status becomes a positive
social and economic factor in their society.
“Thus, even small increases in the opportunities
available to women, and some release of the cultural
and political constraints that hold them back, can lead
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infrastructure together to help businesses and
citizens develop and test green projects such as
installing smart meters that connect ships to the
electricity grid so that they no longer have to use
diesel generators when berthed in the city’s port.
other initiatives include “Climate Street,” which aims
to reduce the energy use of an entire shopping street
and a ReloadIT smart grid for electric vehicles.
Amsterdam’s open Data Program for transport
and mobility won a City Award at the Smart City
Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, National
geographic reported in November 2012. Under
the program, the city has developed smartphone
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notes that
Brazil’s
growing
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the fact that it
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the olympic
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big as electricity’s impact in the last one, as cited
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post on the MIT Sloan Management Review
site, cites some concerns
about managing smart
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June paper, “7KH�5HDO�Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism,” by Rob
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Ireland, Maynooth.
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What ASEAN integration in
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Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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internationalization on the country’s education
sector, the dearth of research output from Philippine
universities, and the challenge of harmonizing the
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international rankings of universities.
He cited QS Quacquarelli Symonds’ 2013
ranking of Asian universities, where U.P.
was the only Philippine university in the top 100,
ranked 67th on the list. According to the QS
list of the top 300 Asian universities, aside
from U.P., 11 other ASEAN universities were in
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In terms of research output, Dr. Pascual presented a
graph showing how Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and
Indonesia have overtaken the Philippines, based on data
from the 1980s up to 2011.
$�QHHG�WR�´SURGXFH�QHZ�NQRZOHGJH�µ Ateneo de
Manila University President Jose Ramon T. Villarin,
S.J., meanwhile, lamented that apart from producing
fewer research papers, these works are rarely being
cited. He stressed the need for Philippine institutions to
“produce new knowledge” and to be able to “contribute
to the global conversation.” He noted that while the
Philippines produces around 600 papers, one university
in Singapore alone produces thousands.
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collaboration and
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Bank (ADB) report on
higher education in Asia
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higher education will help
drive social and economic
development among
developing countries. “As the
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strive to become knowledge economies, labor
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British comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans are embarking on an international tour of 22 locations around the world to establish atheist fellowships along the lines of their “Sunday Assembly” launched in Canonbury, north of London, in January, as reported on the Crossmap site.
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Sunday morning worship services, complete with music, hand
clapping, and inspiration,” H[FHSW�IRU�WKH�DEVHQFH�RI�
any “God” to speak of. An Associated Press photo tag published on the Yahoo!News portal says, without any apparent affect: “The movement fueled by social media and spearheaded by the two prominent British
comedians is no joke.”
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post on the Raw Story site, courtesy of Sadhbh Walshe and The Guardian,
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7UXWK�LQ�DGYHUWLVLQJ�� The Enpundit blog site, in a recent post, calls our attention to the work of Nashville, Tennessee-graphic designer Clif Dickens, who, on his Honest Slogans blog site, provides recreations of the logos of popular products but with slogans/tags/mottos that claim WR�UHÁHFW�´ZKDW�SHRSOH�UHDOO\�think,” referring to the product manufacturers.
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like,” The Malay Mail’s “The coming Red Tide,”
and warisboring.com’s “If China’s Airspace grab
Turns Violent.” Also topping online searches for
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told a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe in Tokyo December 3: “This action has
raised regional tensions and increased the risk of
accidents and miscalculation. This underscores
the need for crisis management mechanisms and
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to disregard Beijing’s instructions to aircraft,
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comply, evidently to avoid any disruption or danger
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the ADIZ and the Liaoning deployment are part of
that plan. And that unrelenting push will almost
surely escalate tensions and confrontation in the
region, especially for the U.S. and its allies nearest
China, i.e., Japan and the Philippines.
So what were Chinese President Xi Jinping and
his fellow leaders thinking when they marked out
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in April as a “core interest” — a phrase previously
applied only to Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang. To
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training voyage of the Liaoning, a refurbished
Ukrainian aircraft carrier, asserts China’s claimed
sovereignty over nearly the entire body of water
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sailing, and President Benigno Aquino III himself
saw no threat in the carrier.
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by analysts for the ADIZ move is the need for the new
administration of President Xi and Prime Minister
li Keqiang to consolidate power and push sweeping
economic reforms, which will inevitably generate
opposition from vested interests in the bureaucracy,
local governments, and business groups. As with any
external challenge, harnessing the armed forces to
assert territorial claims against foreign nations lines
up both people and army behind the government.
“President Xi Jinping faces the politically risky task
RI�SXVKLQJ�WKH�&&3¶V�UHIRUP�DJHQGD�DJDLQVW�¿HUFH�opposition while the economy slows,” explains
fung global Institute and Harvard University Asia
Center senior fellow William overholt in his Project
Syndicate essay. “By emphasizing Party control
– through a crackdown on [state enterprises],
government opponents, and critics in the media
and academia – Xi seeks to maximize his ability to
impose economic reforms while minimizing the risk
of a challenge from conservative forces.”
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Party Politburo amid rumors of an aborted power
grab by his supporters.
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Minister and Chongqing party boss was jailed
for life on charges of corruption and abuse of
power, and
his appeal
was rejected a
month later.
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liberation Army (PlA) missile, air force and navy
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plus adjacent waters, which are marked out by the
VR�FDOOHG�)LUVW�,VODQG�&KDLQ�IURP�WKH�-DSDQHVH�islands, past Taiwan, to the Philippines and Borneo
(see map, page 25).
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brass (cited in page 116 of “The Evolution of China’s
Naval Strategy and Capabilities,” originally published
in 2009 in Asian Security 5 journal).
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$6($1�DQG�-DSDQ�FLWH�DLU�DQG�VHD�FRQFHUQV� China looks set to continue its maritime
security initiatives for the foreseeable future, not
only to secure its trading routes, but also to match
the U.S. Pivot to Asia strategy expanding American
military presence and building alliances. Already,
Beijing’s ambassador in Manila, Ma Keqing,
asserted amid the ADIZ tensions that “where
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practices by the International Civil Aviation
organisation (ICAo).”
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defense alliances with Japan, Korea, Australia,
Thailand and the Philippines (in that order), and its
strategic partnerships with India and China. Clinton
also spoke of advancing “clear and increasingly
shared objectives,” of which the last may not be
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of Chinese incursions in disputed islets, reefs and
waters, can also apply to China’s crucial need to
secure sealanes, as noted by for its commerce,
including 80% of its imported oil passing through the
South China Sea.
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signals to Beijing that ASEAN can lean toward or
HYHQ�MRLQ�WKH�8�6��OHG�EORF�LI�&KLQD�EHFRPHV�D�WKUHDW��That would be a major strategic and geopolitical
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the South China Sea in the immediate future.”
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and push its program to boost economic ties,
DQQRXQFHG�E\�3UHVLGHQW�;L�-LQSLQJ�DW�WKH�$VLD�3DFL¿F�Economic Cooperation summit in Bali in october.
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attend due to the U.S. government shutdown, Xi
and Premier li Keqiang had ASEAN’s full attention
when they launched its biggest drive for closer ties
with the grouping, ushering in “a new strategic era
in Southeast Asia,” says Phuong Nguyen, as America
and Japan compete with China in wooing ASEAN.
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days before the APEC summit, for an Asian
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facilities in the region. The scheme would address
Asia’s immense need for public works, estimated
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ADB report Infrastructure for a Seamless Asia).
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At this rate, most of ASEAN looks set to gain from
the strategic competition between the Chinese on
one side, and the Americans and the Japanese on the
other. Except perhaps the Philippines.
:KDW�DERXW�0DQLOD"�Having taken
Washington’s
side after its
territorial
spats with
Beijing since
2011, Manila
can expect
little from
the Chinese,
as shown by their limited disaster assistance during
the recent Typhoon Haiyan calamity (yolanda in the
Philippines). U.S. and Japanese aid was many times
greater, with American immediate relief estimated by
the White House�DW�QHDUO\�����PLOOLRQ��SOXV�ZDUVKLSV�and troops of both countries mobilized. Many reports
VHH�$PHULFD¶V�JHQHURXV�DQG�KLJK�SUR¿OH�FDODPLW\�HRUW�DV�KHOSLQJ�LWV�SXVK�for a greater military
presence in the archipelago.
Having envisioned the Philippines as a major
platform in their security strategy, America and
Japan must show that it pays to be on their side.
Raising U.S. military aid�WR�����PLOOLRQ�D�\HDU�LV�D�VWDUW��6R�LV������PLOOLRQ�LQ�Japanese loans for
yolanda recovery. Plus visiting Secretary of State
John Kerry’s ����PLOOLRQ�DLG�SDFNDJH for coastal
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And when the next island confrontation with
China occurs, it would shore up filipinos’ faith in
America if, in contrast with its inaction during the
Scarborough Shoal incident, the U.S. would rattle its
saber in defense of the Philippines, as it did for Japan
RYHU�WKH�$',=��2WKHUZLVH��:DVKLQJWRQ¶V�ORQJHVW�standing ally in Asia may start wondering if it’s not
getting a fair shake for taking America’s side against
WKH�ZRUOG¶V�IDVW�ULVLQJ�HFRQRPLF�DQG�JHRSROLWLFDO�behemoth in decades to come.
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