The Japanese government might be using its economic power to boost defense ties with the Philippines and other countries locked in territorial disputes with China in response to growing Chinese militarism in the region, political analysts said. READ:
“Japan is leveraging its economic and financial wherewithal to promote its expanding security interests,” Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, a research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation, said in a Facebook Messenger chat.
Mr. Marcos Jr. said Japan has been helping develop the agency, having built two brand-new multi-role response vessels for the Philippines. The Philippines also bought four Mitsubishi air surveillance radars from Japan last year. “Japan may dangle more market access, infrastructure finance and capital to secure access to strategic Philippine real estate through the deal,” he said. Japan may also co-locate with the US for agreed EDCA sites and help finance the construction of related military infrastructure.
“You do not only give away hardware, you ensure that people are trained to maintain them, make them useful throughout the hardware’s natural lifespan, and hopefully also enable us to develop and manufacture them ourselves,” he said. He said Mr. Marcos should be wary of the possibility of Japan using “our troubles” in the South China Sea “as a way to circumvent the constitutional limitation.”
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