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FOR sheer impudence, China's building of artificial islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea has few parallels in international relations. It's, therefore, big news that this building spree is finally going to be met eyeball to eyeball by military bases jointly run by the US and the Philippines.Similarly, China's spread of its global influence by cultivating publicists, spin doctors, journalists and academics in foreign countries to propagandize, as it has been exposed.
The Pentagon awarded a $32 million contract to upgrade an airfield in the Philippines as part of a broader US program to upgrade and improve Manila's military bases.This is funded under the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a plan to counter China throughout the Indo-Pacific through the construction of infrastructure and investment in regional partners. Basa Air Base is set to receive a 625,000-square-foot parking apron capable of hosting up to 20 aircraft.
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