How to Avoid the Next War in East Asia

Abstract

For a small country like the Philippines, watching the rise of Asia and the relative decline of the West hearkens its people to re-examine their past in the light of recent geo-political shifts. How is a nation to survive obvert and subversive political violence from State enemies? The answer is to find strength from collective resolve against aggression and intimidation by the world's latest bullies, by taking refuge in the rule of law embodied by the United Nations, and in collective security arrangements with fellow democracies and like-minded allies. Like most global upheavals, this storm would pass over