New tack vs China's 'bullying' hailed

A UNITED States-based maritime defense analyst said «assertive transparency,» the Philippines' new strategy for countering China's aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea, is working.

«A bad actor can't hide in the shadows because the light has been turned on. (Assertive transparency) does help to disinfect the whole thing. It makes that bad actor responsible for their actions in a way that they are hoping to avoid,» said Raymond Powell, a retired US Air Force colonel and founder and director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency project that monitors and reports activities in the South China Sea, during a roundtable discussion with The Manila Times on Thursday.

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