Though the U.S.-Japan-Philippines summit is hyped as a forum for fostering "peace and security" in the Asia-Pacific region, experts from the three countries say:
-- "It's a Cold War tactic and a narrow security-centric effort of the U.S. to preserve its hegemony and dominance in the Asia Pacific region."
-- "The United States wants to assert what it calls the rule of law. But the rule of law that it supports is really what it wants, what it interprets, as the rule of law."
-- "The Philippines had a great deal of benefit from the Chinese cooperation. Now the U.S. is saying they're going to do all this, they're going to build these tunnels and build these bridges. We can't even build them in the United States. How are we going to expect to spend the money to build to rebuild and reconstruct infrastructure in the Philippines?"
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