Without diplomacy, deterrence in Asia is a path to escalation
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“Balikatan 2026” is meant to reassure allies and deter adversaries. But the military exercise hosted by the Philippines also reveals a harsher truth: the Indo-Pacific is drifting into a security logic in which deterrence no longer contains risk but multiplies it. Every move taken in the name of stability now invites a countermove. Every display of resolve is answered by another. The result is not equilibrium, but a trap.
That is why diplomacy has to return to the centre of regional strategy...
That is why diplomacy has to return to the centre of regional strategy...
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