I've heard a number of concerns from the Filipino diaspora about the Indo-Pacific strategy and our goals of expanding military capacity and building initiatives with regional partners, which also lists the Philippines, yet their current government has taken part in horrific human rights violations.
As General Thibault mentioned, we need to be careful with those who are hostile to our interests. I would consider human rights protections and so on to be our interests.
How do we adapt that Indo-Pacific strategy so that we're not empowering regimes working against those interests to uphold the international, rules-based order?