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Duterte has courted Chinese investment in the hope that high-speed railways and sweeping highways would give the southern Philippines the employment needed to deter rebellion. The military’s job was to make sure none of the flagship projects, ports, airports, telecommunications, fiber optic cabling, and the rest got sabotaged as they were being built.
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
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