The subsequent incidents in Filipino-Chinese relations should be seen as a serious informing for the Indo-Pacific safety architecture, but besides in the context of the global situation. Especially erstwhile we proceed to see the impossibility of de-escalation in the case of fighting in the Red Sea, not to mention the situation in Ukraine. The open question remains whether the PRC intends to test not only the Philippines itself, but besides another countries in 2024, while balancing on the verge of a larger crisis.