US and Philippines Boost Presence in the Bashi Channel Amid Rising Tensions
US and Philippines Boost Presence in the Bashi Channel Amid Rising Tensions The Indo-Pacific has become the defining arena of 21st-century power competition, and few places capture that reality more starkly than the Bashi Channel. Stretching between northern Philippines and southern Taiwan, this narrow waterway has rapidly shifted from a geographic footnote into a frontline…