President Ferdinand Marcos Jr greets Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Malacañang Palace ahead of meetings with their Filipino counterparts, the first such meetings hosted by the Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines – Philippine 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. “I’m always very happy that these communication lines are very open so that all the things that we are doing together, in terms of our alliance, in terms of the specific context of our situation here, in the West Philippine Sea and in the Indo-Pacific, are continuously examined and re-examined so we are agile in terms of our responses,” Marcos said.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Blinken and Austin discussed with Marcos “their shared commitment to upholding international law in the South China Sea.”
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