ON April 27, the 10-year Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), which allows the United States to use the bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), will either expire or be renewed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
ON April 27, the 10-year Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement , which allows the United States to use the bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines , will either expire or be renewed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. For a true and full exposition of the national security and life-and-death issues involved, our columns in March and April will recap and update EDCA reports and analyses over the past decade.
'He might have remembered his own father's warning in 1975, quoted in the Philippine Council of Foreign Relations journal :'If the purpose of American military bases is to strengthen American military posture in the Pacific, or in the Indian Ocean and throughout the world, does this not expose the Philippines to the animosities, suspicions and the conflicts arising out of the American military buildup — animosities and conflicts that we have no participation in making — and do not...
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