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Why the Philippines Matters to America
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
August 23, 2023
At the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy began guaranteeing free maritime trade around the world…. Unfortunately, this era is drawing to a close…. By 2010, China had stolen huge quantities of industrial capacity and intellectual property from America to fuel its rise. Meanwhile, Beijing had begun to claim vast sections of the South China Sea….
In 2016, the United Nations rejected China’s claim to the Philippines’ historically recognized territory in the South China Sea. But Beijing refuses to accept that ruling. Chinese ships…are currently harassing Filipinos in their own territory to bully them into accepting Beijing’s decree, rather than international law….
Simply put, we don’t want a totalitarian regime that hates the United States to gain exclusive access to huge stores of rare earth minerals, energy, seafood, and trade in Asia….
A united [anti-Beijing] front in the Indo-Pacific, however, will not coalesce without firm U.S. support. We should provide that support, not because we want to get mixed up in far-flung controversies, but because deterring Beijing is the best way to keep this far-flung controversy from impacting our way of life.
If there is even a hint that the United States will not honor its security commitments…in Asia, it will encourage Beijing to engage in more hostilities to test our resolve. Americans have enough to worry about already. Adding the breakdown of the post-World War II order in Asia to their plates would mean an awful lot to swallow.