Philippine's Duterte approves $5.

6
billion military upgrade
Summarized
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a five-year plan
to spend 300 billion pesos to modernise the outdated military,
defence officials said on Wednesday. A previous 15-year upgrade
plan failed to take off in the mid-1990s, leaving the Philippine's
with outdated hardware, including warships from World War Two
and helicopters used by United States in Vietnam War. The
previous administration of Benigno Aquino spent about $1.7
billion on the military during it's 2010-2016 term in office, mostly
on second hand ships and planes. Duterte approved the $5.6
billion modernisation plan at a meeting with top defence and
military official's last month. A senior general said Duterte had
approved 33 modernisation projects, with focus on domestic
security and protecting the vast maritime borders of the
archipelago nation. The Philippine's also face's a challenge in
South China Sea, a strategic waterway most of which is claimed
by China, which has built military outpost there. Besides the
Philippine's, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also have rival
claims on the area, through which $3 trillion worth of sea-borne
good's pass every yea. Manila had planned to acquire four
submarines after 2023, but the plan could be accelerated to boost
the navy's regional capabilities.

Refection
My reflection on this is there are interaction with other country
and they also plan to have a change to the country of Philippine's,
they decided to upgrade the military to protect and focus to the
vast maritime borders of the archipelago. They also want to be
ready if someday will have a war between other country who
claiming the proprety of the Philippine's that have a good group of
military in their country. This is the right to do, have a change and
focus to the important things we need to solve.