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Dont act blur. Philippine regard US as hostile. The real evil is US. Meddling in Pinoy self government and while suppressing the progress of Philippine modernisation.
Duturte say US president is son of a whore. Got it?
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[URL='http://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/lot-of-noise-little-change-in-philippine-us-relationship-state/']‘Lot Of Noise’, Little Change In Philippine-US Relationship: State
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China continues to claim sovereign control of the South and East China Seas, but the Beijing is taking no actions to enforce its claims, a senior State Department official says. “The point to stress is this: no one is stopping a US Navy warship. The Chinese are not stopping US Navy warships,” Daniel Russel, assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs, told me during a Defense Writers Group breakfast
Russel made the intriguing point that the Seventh Fleet and its Pentagon leaders do not necessarily “announce every FONOPs, so some things are visible; some things are only visible to people with radar and tracking.”
“The Chinese are not being let off the hook,” Russel says, adding that the PRC’s “claims have lost any credibility” with nations in the region. Of course, China has no legal leg to stand on since the UN tribunal ruled incontrovertibly this summer that China has no legal claims to sovereignty over the South China Sea.
In other intriguing points, Russel told us he has seen no “material change” in the US-Phillipino relationship, while wryly noting “there’s a lot of noise, a lot of stray voltage” coming from Manila.
“We’ve been through a lot worse in our 70-year history,” Russel says.
As Duterte continues to speak big, the question that needs answering will be, is he actually doing anything to harm or fundamentally change his country’s relationship with the United States. As Russel put it: “There’s a difference between talking about these things and doing them.”
http://breakingdefense.com/2016/10/lot-of-noise-little-change-in-philippine-us-relationship-state/
http://www.euronews.com/2016/10/22/...wanting-to-weaken-philippines-us-relationship
Washington and Manila signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) in 2014, a ten-year deal that allows a strengthened U.S. military presence in the Philippines, with increased rotation of U.S. military personnel and assistance devoted to humanitarian and maritime operations. The deal grants U.S. troops broad access to bases at the invitation of the Philippine government and will allow for the construction of new and improved facilities. Despite some popular opposition to the deal over its constitutionality, the Philippine Supreme Court voted 10-4 in January 2016 to uphold the agreement.
http://www.cfr.org/philippines/us-philippines-defense-alliance/p38101
