Taft's view of the Philippines shows that even though he loved the majority of the country, he was not willing to put American foreign policy in jeopardy<span> over losing an island in Asia.
Indicating that at that time, United States were more interested in making Philliphine as our trading foothold in Asia rather than making proper alliance to the country</span>
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Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
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