TREMENDOUS pressure was put on President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. to implement quickly and expand the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), sources in the Foreign affairs department disclosed.
Marcos, Jr. to implement quickly and expand the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement , sources in the Foreign affairs department disclosed.They pointed out that the US ambassador to Manila, MaryKay Loss Carlson, even inadvertently revealed such pressure when she said in a recent TV interview: 'Never in my 38 years as a diplomat have I seen so many of our top officials talk to a head of state in such a short span of time.
My sense is nothing could have convinced Marcos to implement and expand EDCA other than the top US officials' convincing him that China would invade Taiwan soon, and that it is crucial for American forces to be pre-positioned, including their stockpile of weapons and war materiel, in northern Luzon, for quick mobilization as this would be just 400 kilometers from Taiwan.
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