Shortly before noon on Sunday, four Osprey tilt-rotor helicopters roared over a verdant ridge in Batan, a remote island in the northern Philippines.
“They are coming!” shouted Eugene, a local resident, to his wife Hilda, who was selling souvenirs in their tiny shop at the Tayid lighthouse, calling her to witness the arrival of the military aircraft — and global great power competition — to their sleepy Pacific coastline.
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