Why Philippines is confident in defensive gardens with Trump Office

We are not Ukraine.

It is a message from the authorities in the Philippines that they are, including the surprising, President Trump’s dramatic turns in foreign policy are those who have all the support of the United States Bullying with the leader of Ukraine. Their confidence says that both Washington and Manila are a common enemy: China.

Mr. Trump runs out in a Trade War with ChinaPhilippine Beijing has become increasingly intense in the South China Sea throughout the South China Sea. Manila’s biggest obstacle to China is a mutual protection agreement with the United States. Last month, Washington, Mr. Trump resumed about $ 400 million in the Philippines, which was suspended as part of foreign aid.

This was “best proof” of relations between the two countries, the Philippine defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., in an interview of Mr. Trump on Tuesday, stopped military assistance to Ukraine.

In recent weeks, Mr. Teodoro and his colleagues spoke with members of the Cabinet of Trump and accepted the shelters of Washington’s Philippines and the defense agreement.

“We have no reason to doubt the responsibilities of the highest officials of the Trump Management.”

However, Mr. Trump has declared the desire to break down alliances for decades. Happened Tariffs presented In Canada, Damaged to Europe and Returned NATO. When he did not solve the connections with the Philippines or the broader Pacific, his actions caused printers here.

“We must prepare for the day where the United States can leave the South China Sea,” said Antonio Carpio, former Supreme Court Justice, which helped Philippines Landmark International Judge Against China on the claims in the South China Sea.

Beijing claims about 90 percent of the South China Sea, but also allegedly allegedly by Vietnamese, Brunei, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. At the beginning of the territorial struggle of Manila, Chinese ships are the thinking of the entrance to the fishing sites, as well as in the exclusive economic zone in the waters of the oil and gas fields.

This tension increased sharply In recent yearsIncreases the risk of Washington to be involved in the confrontation.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. have He hugged the USto return a pivot to China with his predecessor. And he expanded access to some flashpoint, which faces Taiwan, which is another flashpoint between Washington and Beijing.

Last April, Washington, joint military exercises called Taiphon’s missile system in the Philippines. Land-based launcher can burn cruise missiles that can get out of the Philippines in the Chinese mainland.

The United States is one of the busiest shipping strips of the world interested in the protection of navigation freedom in the South China Sea. U.S. officials, how China’s military footprints built their military footage there, strengthened and strengthened the small patches and airports.

Director General of the Philippines Director General of the National Security Council Jonathan Malaya, Mr. Trump said he would not withdraw from the region. Mr. Trump’nın first management – “Free and Open Indian-Pacific” expression, he noted.

He added that Washington’s financial liabilities in the Philippines were compared with the help of Ukraine compared to billions of dollars. And he noted that Mr. Trump’s position in Biden’s leadership in connection with the Ukrainian War. (Tuesday, Mr. Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged.)

In December, Mr. Trump spoke with the Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez. In the 1990s, the mother of Marcos, a few times, several times in New York, reminded me of the mother of Marcos, several times.

“As you know, President Trump believes in personal relations, so he was looking forward to meeting with President Marcos at once,” Mr. Marcos’s cousin was Mr. Romualdez.

Prior to the re-election of Mr. Trump, the Philippines were forced to diversify the United States, which signed military cooperation agreements with Japan and New Zealand. This year, this year increases its defense budget by 14 percent, up to $ 4.7 billion.

Now the Secretary of Defense told Mr. Teodoro that this wants to buy a tray of a tray from the United States.

Beijing called this plan “a major threat to peace and security.”

According to Ronald Llamas, the late President Benigno Aquino III’s approach to the Philippines, the deceased President Benigno Aquino was able to rest on how his relations with Xi Jinping played with China’s top leader.

“The International Order of World War II has undergone the international disposal, in both ways,” Mr Llamas said.

Camille Elemia Contributing report.