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Eyeing China, the Philippines wants to buy its first attack submarine
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Plans to buy a sub date back to the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, a populist whose attempts to embrace China sputtered.
Diesel-electric submarines are relatively tough to detect before they surface to intake fresh air, and a small number of them could complicate China’s efforts to encroach on atolls and islands by force.
“The key determinant here is the fiscal capacity of the Philippines,” Mark Manantan, director of cybersecurity and critical technologies, at the Hawaii-based Pacific Forum think tank, told Business Insider.
Nor would it be useful against the sort of low-key, gray zone warfare that Beijing is waging in places, such as harassing the Philippine ship beached on the Second Thomas Shoal.
“I don’t think the purchase of submarines would have any deterrent effect at all,” said Manantan, who believes China may also be counting on future Philippine governments to cancel the project.
Beijing is more concerned with alliances that Manila is pursuing, such as a new agreement that would allow the Japanese military — whose forebears committed atrocities against Filipinos during their WWII occupation — to use Philippine bases.
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