As US Vice President Kamala Harris visits the Philippines this week, read up on some of the main issues surrounding her visit.
US Vice President Kamala Harris visits the Philippines this week in the Biden administration’s latest high-level engagement with America’s oldest Asian ally and an increasingly vital strategic partner as tensions rise with China over Taiwan.Why is the Philippines so important to the United States?
Harris also plans a highly symbolic stop on the Philippine islands of Palawan in the South China Sea to show U.S. support for its ally.Of the five US treaty allies in the Indo-Pacific – Australia, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand – the Philippines is closest to Taiwan, its northernmost land mass of Luzon just 200 km away.
Washington has carefully courted Marcos and Harris’s visit follows two meetings between President Joe Biden and Marcos and a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Manila in August.The two sides have moved ahead with an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement that dates back to Obama’s presidency and that languished under Duterte.
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