The Philippines Hedging Between Alliance or Appeasement: Can the Biden Administration Tip the Balance?

The Philippines Hedging Between Alliance or Appeasement: Can the Biden Administration Tip the Balance?

The webinar will look at how the Philippine and the U.S. defense establishments have effectively managed the crisis in the Philippine-U.S. alliance created by the Duterte Administration’s appeasement policy on China since 2016. It will also look at Biden’s long-term task to ensure that the Philippine-U.S. alliance remains intact, flexible, and vibrant in the face of a changing 21st-century Indo-Pacific region.