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It'll definitely be interesting, alright. Mind you, at least both the Philippines and Korea are wealthy enough these days that they can actually feasibly be neutral - their economies aren't massively propped-up by outside powers.
Who knows, maybe they'll end up heading some kind of Asian Non-Aligned movement
OOC: I'm imagining the TTL Philippine economy to be on 1990s South Korea tier. Also placing bugs was inspired from South Koreans doing the same in Indonesia, over the submarine export case.
Makes sense. And I didn't know about that - thanks for sharing!