China Just Botched a Monumental Opportunity with the Philippines

China hailed Philippines President Duterte ' s announcement in February of an end to the U.S.-Philippines Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) in six months as evidence the United States was losing the great power competition with China in the Indo-Pacific. But on June 2, Duterte decided to postpone the VFA termination, breathing new life into the decades-long agreement.

Source: The RAND Blog - June 17, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs