Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Expansion of the US-Philippines Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (originally signed April 2014 under Aquino III and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2016) from five to nine agreed sites, announced 3 April 2023. Four new sites added: Naval Base Camilo Osias (Cagayan), Camp Melchor Dela Cruz (Isabela), Balabac Island (Palawan) and Lal-lo Airport (Cagayan) — geographically oriented toward the Taiwan Strait, Bashi Channel and West Philippine Sea. US invests in runway, fuel, command-and-control, and humanitarian/disaster-response infrastructure at the sites; Philippines retains sovereignty. Institutional pivot away from the Duterte-era public distancing from Washington.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.
Flagged as a foreign/security-policy policy with incidental economic-axis relevance; retained for Marcos Jr doctrine coherence rather than for strong policy-axis movement.