MANILA — Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr told US cabinet secretaries Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin on Tuesday (July 30) that regular engagements between Manila and Washington were needed to ensure 'agile' responses to his country's maritime tensions with China.
US-Philippines engagements help with 'agile' responses to China, says Marcos.MANILA — Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr told US cabinet secretaries Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin on Tuesday that regular engagements between Manila and Washington were needed to ensure "agile" responses to his country's maritime tensions with China.
Marcos greeted Secretary of State Blinken and Defence Secretary Austin at the Malacanang Palace on Tuesday morning ahead of meetings with their Filipino counterparts, the first such meetings hosted by the Philippines. The Philippines has competing claims with China in the waters to its west also known as the South China Sea. China claims 90 per cent of the sea as its sovereign territory.
"The two secretaries underscored the United States' ironclad commitments to the Philippines under our Mutual Defence Treaty," Miller said in a statement following the meeting.
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