The Department of National Defense is on the right track in prioritizing the modernization of our Navy and Coast Guard
in the face of what Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro has described as China’s “egregious” violations of maritime safety and a rules-based order in the West Philippine Sea.
In addition, human resource skills and retraining of both military and civilian workers are needed to speed up the transition to territorial defense. Building alliances with other countries is crucial. We have an “ironclad” commitment from the US that the Mutual Defense Treaty signed back in 1951 would come into effect should the tension in the South China Sea escalate.
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