Bases

• US says no pressure on Phl to sign enhanced defense pact

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  Bases, Mutual Defense, Philippines, President Barack Obama, South China Sea Dispute, USA

  April 16, 2014

  News × West Philippine Sea

  MANILA, Philippines – While encouraged by the “positive” outcome of the eighth and possibly last round of negotiations with the Philippines for enhanced defense cooperation, the United States is urging Manila not to be pressured into signing an agreement by the April 28 visit of US President Barack Obama, diplomatic sources said yesterday. Sources also […]

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• Are U.S. Security Forces a Threat to Philippine Sovereignty? A Call for Principled Statesmanship

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  ASEAN, Bases, China, Militarization, Mutual Defense, Philippines, USA

  April 15, 2014

  News × West Philippine Sea

  Philippine undersecretary of defense Lorenzo Batino said April 11 that negotiators had reached “consensus on key points” of a new deal to allow a greater U.S. rotational military presence in the Philippines. But this raises a dilemma for Philippine lawmakers attempting to define and craft “an independent and nationalistic” foreign policy. At what point should […]

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• NO TREATY, RENT, LIMITS | Party-list solons say impending pact with US worse than bases treaty

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  Bases, Constitutionality, Magnificent 12, Mutual Defense, Philippines, Supreme Court, USA

  April 14, 2014

  News × West Philippine Sea

  MANILA – As negotiators from both the United States and the Philippines wrap up an Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation (AEDC), party-list lawmakers are preparing to question it before the Supreme Court on grounds of constitutionality. “This early, we are already studying the option of questioning the AEDC at the Supreme Court because it is […]

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