A U.S. Ally Is Turning to China to ‘Build, Build, Build’
The Philippines is converting a historic American military base into a city. Its key funder? China.
Timothy McLaughlin
May 8, 2019
CLARK, Philippines—Vince Dizon makes sure his guests take in the view from his ninth-story office before they leave. A set of windows looks out over a hazy, expansive airfield that was the center of the United States’ largest overseas military base, until it was handed back to the Philippines in 1991.
The concrete skeleton of a new commercial-airline terminal can now be seen in the distance. Dizon, who leads the Philippine government agency charged with redeveloping old military sites, is fond of telling visitors that the Americans built a runway of such quality that the U.S. Space Shuttle could have landed on it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/05/philippines-us-ally-china-investment/588829/
