*Everyone was going to China back then, after it broke up with the USSR.*
A week after Viet Nam fell?
*So you are in favor of extra-judicial murder by death squads? I am not.*
And Mexico’s? How much did it cost us to get rid of the rape rooms in Iraq?
*RP would be well advised to develop considerable naval and aerial drone capacity as quickly as possible. That’d be murder on Chinese ships trying to navigate between all those islands...*
Now you’re thinking. Who says they have to ‘develop’ their own? We ‘gave’ Ageus destroyers to Taiwan while replacements were online.
I think you meant those 1st 2 replies for the previous poster.
As for the drones, well dispersed local mfg. capacity for at least half the small and medium size drones would somewhat shield Philippines from idiots like Biden, plus, more of the money stays in country. Tech sharing arrangements such as the Pole / S. Korean deals could be made too? For the larger more sophisticated drones, tougher for RP to build, RP would probably be best advised to diversify supply, buying from the US, S. Korea, and perhaps Israel or a NATO country or 2.