Manila Briefings: Thinking Through Some Of the Big Implications

After three days of briefings in Manila with all kinds of sharp people, I found myself thinking about some of the bigger implications. To be clear, I am not an Indo-Pacific expert, so some of this might be common knowledge, widely accepted wisdom, or incredibly dim, uninformed stuff. But that is why this is a Semi-Spew--no lit reviews, all half-baked thinking. You let me know which ideas have…