The US had agreed to spend $66.5 million to start building training and warehouse facilities under a 2014 joint security deal.
Construction of the projects in three of five Philippine sites outlined under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement will start next year, the Department of Defense said in a statement.
The Philippines has long been a staunch U.S. ally and the EDCA is widely seen as important for both sides, worried by China’s increasingly assertive pursuit of its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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