The Philippines Is Central to Any Western Pacific Solution

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s we pointed out in a previous editorial, the Philippines’ strategic location in the Western Pacific is highly desirable to both the United States and the Chinese navies. During the Korean War, American John Foster Dulles first broached what he called the island chain strategy. It was a way to contain the Soviet Union and China in the Western Pacific by deploying forces on islands along several delineated chains on a map.