Going to attempt to read this book, next.
I’m aware that Marites Vitug is/was an editor at Omidyar-funded Rappler, but this book is cited by another that I hope to read to understand USG’s strategy in the South China Sea. For more information, see below the page cut.
The host quotes a 2016 white paper that detailed how the Philippines verbally promised to remove the BRP Sierra Madre from the Second Thomas Shoal. China sees the BRP Sierra Madre as a de facto military outpost. Prof. Anna Rosario Malindog-Uy quotes from the book, “On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea” by Gregory B. Poling of CSIS. Poling’s source is from the book, “Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case against China”, by Marites Dañguilan Vitug.
Poling’s department, the Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is linked to IO Project Myoushu. The Center for Strategic and International Studies receives funding from the USG (as does Project Myoushu via Stanford University) and other corporate donors.
By Ray Powell and Ben Goirigolzarri, PhD
Related: Poling’s Book Launch
IO:
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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