FOR the Philippines, 2023 was a year of building new alliances and reviving old ones, shifting focus to external defense, and carrying on with the ambitious program of modernizing the military.

These efforts were undertaken to counter Beijing's continued aggression in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), some observers pointed out.

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