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“If the airport project with a Chinese company materializes, this can potentially be the 3rd nexus in China's triangle over the South China Sea.”
Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla’s Sangley International Airport project and its foreign developer – the China Communications Construction Co., Ltd. – were recently put in a spotlight after the US Commerce Departmentthe company, along with 23 other Chinese companies involved in the construction of the artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Unfortunately, the bureaucracy operates under Western-style “stovepipes.” The economic clusters of government decide on investments sans due diligence from a security lens. Likewise, local governments decide on the basis of parochial interest over a higher national security interest.
These ‘pearls” can potentially extend and sustain the deployment of seapower on extended periods, and project sea control over “geographic chokepoints” or adjacent waters by the exercise of both sea and air power. The second approach is to project influence over the sea through fixed bases or station, such as the Chinese-occupied features in Subi, Fiery Cross and Mischief Reefs. On the other side of the fence, the Changi naval facility in Singapore provides the best example in the manner it affects maritime traffic in the Malacca Strait.
Review the deliberation and approval process of foreign investments and consider a mechanism to vet proposals from both an economic and security perspective; Study the possibility of “nationalizing” the Sangley International Airport so that 2 years from now it can be reverted back to Philippine military control. Perhaps the Air Force can consider shifting from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Sangley all of its aerodrome operations, and dedicating NAIA to civilian commercial air traffic only.
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