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Title:
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Chekhov's Gun and the Tangled US-Philippines-China Triangle
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Author:
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Roncevert Ganan Almond
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Source:
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The Diplomat
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Date:
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February 9, 2017
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Description:
- Lord Palmerston, the 19th century British leader and empire builder, famously noted that countries do not have eternal allies or perpetual enemies, only indefinite national interests. The tangled triangle of U.S.-Philippines-China relations is testing Palmerston’s maxim.