TEAMWORK: Collaboration could focus on low-profile, people-oriented areas, particularly where shared risks are the most immediate, a Philippine academic said By Su Yung-yao and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with staff writer Taiwan and the Philippines’ Batanes Islands share a common strategic environment that could foster “parallel preparedness,” a security model based on resilience and deterrence, as China intensifies its “gray zone” activities in the region, a Philippine academic said.Despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties, Batanes and Taiwan face shared risks and could develop similar civil defense mechanisms, including emergency communications systems, evacuation procedures and public information strategies, Institute for National Defense and Security Research visiting research fe