Philippines Looks to Revive U.S. Naval Base

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BY ANDREW BROWNE
SUBIC BAY, Philippines—In 1991, after the Philippine Senate voted to close Subic Naval Base—then the largest American overseas military facility—an emotional Sen. Agapito Aquino summed up the popular mood. It was, he said, “the dawn of our nation’s birth.”
Tossing out the Americans from Subic and nearby Clark Air Base, he added, had ended the country’s “crippling dependence” on its former colonial overlord.
Now, the Philippines wants American forces back in Subic to counter Chinese moves off the Philippine coast. Just west of Subic, Chinese ships have fenced off the Scarborough Shoal, one of the world’s richest fishing grounds, which …
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