{"id":138616,"date":"2025-07-15T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138616"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:42:25","slug":"w-post-the-philippines-is-quietly-working-with-taiwan-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138616","title":{"rendered":"(W Post) The Philippines is quietly working with Taiwan to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Faced with intensifying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2024\/06\/14\/philippines-china-south-china-sea-dispute\/\">Chinese encroachment at sea<\/a>, the Philippines increasingly sees its national security as intertwined with that of Taiwan and is quietly ramping up both formal and informal engagement with the self-governing island, including on security, according to government officials, defense analysts and diplomats here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks a significant departure from Manila\u2019s conservative approach toward Taiwan and could pave the way for the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, to play a bigger role if China makes good on its threats to invade Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny force projection of China within our area is a matter of extreme concern,\u201d Philippine Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said in an interview Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/07\/14\/philippines-taiwan-security-ties-china\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Philippines is quietly ramping up cooperation with Taiwan \u2014 including on security<br><br>Lots of new details in our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@washingtonpost<\/a> dispatch, including that at a U.S.-Phil military exercise last month, unofficial Taiwanese observers were present &amp; participated in tabletop planning <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S1SiRjmjvK\">pic.twitter.com\/S1SiRjmjvK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rebecca Tan (@rebtanhs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rebtanhs\/status\/1944685586645995915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with intensifying\u00a0Chinese encroachment at sea, the Philippines increasingly sees its national security as intertwined with that of Taiwan and is quietly ramping up both formal and informal engagement with the self-governing island, including on security, according to government officials,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138616\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,144,106,353,151,507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-philippines","category-politics-in-general","category-taiwan-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138622,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138616\/revisions\/138622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}