The Philippines once guarded someone else’s peace. Now it guards its own. The Center That Never Wanted to Be One The Philippines never asked to be at the center of the Indo-Pacific. Geography made that choice for us. We sit in the path of ambition, where trade routes meet, where power projects, and where history keeps repeating itself. In the
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— What We Have Is Not a Strategy. It’s a Souvenir. Let’s start with a fable. Once upon a time in the archipelago, a group of technocrats asked the nation:“Where do you want to be in 25 years?” And the people said:We want to be secure.We want to be comfortable.We want to be respected, healthy, together, whole.We want jobs that