Subsequent incidents in Filipino-Chinese relations should be treated as a serious informing to Indo-Pacific safety architecture, but besides in the context of the global situation. Especially erstwhile we inactive see the inability to de-escalate in the fight in the Red Sea, not to mention the situation in Ukraine. The question is whether the PRC intends to test not only the Philippines itself but besides another countries in 2024, while balancing it on the threshold of a major crisis.
