An overwhelming majority of Filipinos are worried about the increase in geopolitical tensions between the US and China and its impact on the country's national security.
Politicians like Jinggoy Estrada and Risa Hontiveros, who think being vehemently against China will make them popular for a higher position, had better do some hard thinking. An overwhelming majority of Filipinos - 81 percent - are worried that if the geopolitical tensions between the US and China increase, the country's national security will be put at risk. This information is based on a poll conducted in June last year by the Eurasia Group Foundation.
The percentage of Filipinos very much concerned is significantly higher than the 38 percent of Singaporeans worried and 67 percent of South Koreans. The study did not explain these results, but the major factor involved is the degree of each country's alignment with the United States. South Korea has been the US' most important vassal state in Asia, rooted in the Korean War, in which the Americans saved the South from being overwhelmed by China and the communist North Koreans
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