Late last month, a wire news report indicated the United States military is holding talks with the Philippine government to
The report did not say whether the US is talking with officials of Batanes province—and, presumably, with the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Batanes province lies less than 200 kilometers from Taiwan, which China claims is a renegade province that must be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary. This news report is likely to send alarm bells ringing wildly in Beijing as the plan could “stoke the fires” of already simmering tension in this part of the Pacific.
The province could also offer safe haven to Filipinos fleeing Taiwan if conflict breaks out there, according to Batanes local government officials.
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