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MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines and the United States signed a military intelligence-sharing deal on Monday, deepening defence ties between the two nations facing common security challenges in ...
Marcos approved last year an expansion of the U.S. military presence in four more Philippine military camps under the 2014 defense agreement, and the largest war drills between Filipino and U.S ...
The U.S. on Tuesday announced a $500 million investment in the Philippines to help modernize the Filipino armed forces and coast guard as Manila faces a rising threat from China in the disputed ...
This notably improved relations between the United States and the Philippine people. After the war, the United States granted the Philippines independence. In 1947, two years after the surrender of Japan, the CIA released a country report on the Philippines that assessed the political and economic conditions of the newly independent nation. It ...
A 1947 Military Bases Agreement [40] gave the United States a 99-year lease on a number of Philippine military and naval bases in which U.S. authorities had virtual territorial rights. [41] In August 1951, a mutual defense treaty (MDT) was signed between representatives of the Philippines and the United States.
The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is an agreement between the United States and the Philippines intended to bolster the American–Philippine alliance.The agreement allows the United States to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays and allows the United States to build and operate facilities on Philippine bases for both American and Philippine forces. [1]
MANILA (Reuters) -The U.S. military could be granted access to more bases in the Philippines under a joint defence agreement between the two countries, the chief of the U.S. Indo-Pacific command ...
The Philippines and the United States will carry out annual military exercises next month in key locations including Philippine islands facing the South China Sea and Taiwan, as tensions with ...