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africa's you to defeat issues and share ideas with, you know, or this channel. we are not afraid to happen delicate the topic because population is growing and young people clearly have the solutions. the future belongs to the 77 percent every weekend on d w. ah, this is d w's asia coming up today. and i am glad defense commitment to come to china. the u. s. re teresa decades old security for the ship with the philippines. but does president bivens commitment to president marco's junior make manila safer or joy even closer to confrontation with beijing?

ah, my british manager, welcome to did up the news asia, glad you could join us. the united states has committed to defending the philippines, including in the south china sea, the word used iron club. it's what president joe biden said to philippines president, footman marco's junior, during the 1st white house visit by a philippines leader in 10 years. the commitment comes at a time that manila is facing increased chinese assertive base in the south china sea. beijing unilaterally claims almost the entire expense of water as its own. a claim shown here by this red line of this includes islands, which manila claim sovereignty over sovereignty that increasingly being challenged by beijing, on the south china sea, a 10th stand up comes to

a head. a chinese coast guard ship steams directly in front of the philippines. patrol vessel cutting off its journey toward the nearby spread the islands, the collision course set by the chinese despite earlier communications with a lot of berkeley relationship with china and the brady. we hope you can operate with our do not pay in their appropriate behavior. we, we are a beer with the philippines ship. it was on its way to territory, claimed by manila, in the sprightly islands claims contested by china, which claims full sovereignty over all islands and features in these waters. a

fiercely disputed stance that's getting a new pushback from manila since taking office last june, philippines president 3rd, non marcus junior, has insisted that china will not trample on philippines race at sea during a visit to beijing and january marcus. and his chinese counterpart. she's in ping agreed to a friendly handling of maritime spats. but just weeks later, the philippines accused china blinding a coast guard crew with a laser light, middle as choice to go public with the footage. a new strategy to confront chinese aggression. on the world stage. marco says also moved to strengthen the philippines military alliance with the u. s. in april, the 2 countries held military drills which included the 1st ever live fire exercise on territory in the south china sea. a demonstration of joint fire power,

that's drawn beijing's ire. now in washington, marcos was met with a warm welcome from us president joe biden. and a pledge of military support. united states all reminds, are, aren't clad nor remains, aren't our commitment to the defense of the philippines, including the south china sea biden and marco's said, this commitment means honoring a decades old mutual defense packed closer security ties between the 2 countries have been in play for months earlier this year, a manila granted the u. s. access to several additional philippines spaces. an arrangement that strengthens the philippines defense capabilities and grants. the u . s. a stronger foothold to counter what it sees as the biggest potential threat in the south china sea region. a possible invasion of taiwan by china. jeremy, now for more context on this is alter columnist and political scientists. richard

had darian richard and iron clad commitment from the us to defend the philippines, including in the south china sea. does this make the philippines safer or increased chances of a real confrontation with bridging? well, as far as the statement, iron cloud is concerned, this is kind of a shade medically shade that the united states use this. we not only treat the like the philippines, but we hear also doctor, when the united states dos about its relationship with gulf countries, persian gulf countries in the middle east, for instance. so i think that wart doesn't care as much water except when they buy the administration. flyer vice, the parameters of mutual defense tricky with the philippines. and this is something that has been quite vague all the way from the nixon administration until the obama administration. but from the late trump years to 5 years now, the americans are opposite the peer, you filipino aircraft vessels or soldiers come under attack in the south china sea,

not vaguely in the pacific, but in the south, tennessee that will be covered by dimensional defense treaty by the united states and that's particularly important in light of what has been happening over the past few days. this will be coast guard accusing try and harassing them and the harassment by the chinese schools. where dawson was caught by a number of jordan ellis, where a company the philippine coast guard. and few months ago you hot chinese worship reporting the point in the military great laser, the filipino patrol vessel, also in the contested areas of the south china sea. so this, this tension is give a certain point, nancy to this iron club statements by dividing ration. but what comprises an attack on philippine fillers? i mean, what you're talking about is something that is in our report as well. let's look at the confrontation between the chinese course. got the philippines coast guard, if it were to pass to the chinese coast guard, rams, philippines, coast guards vessel accidentally or otherwise would that constitute an attack. and

hence, the mutual defense treaty would come into play. yes, a since 2019 because there was an order incident back there were by a suspected chinese militia for us actually rami to the philippine efficient vessel . and almost sand doesn't seem to be the feature folks. all dot incident actually made me think about the precise guidelines on that overseas or alliance. so one of the issues that it's still being discussed because we still have to upgrade our mutual defense tricky come up with new guidelines is a so called gray zone attacks. so green on the tops concern cases for bi, you're not looking at, you know, chinese vessels shooting down to see if there's been aircrafts or using guns or firearms. but actually using something, it's just short of that, but course it's still in nature. this is something that the pentagon under philippine the counterparts have been seriously discussing, but that will be a very, very, let's say formal process because we really have to pin down what are they going to

be the guidelines that will go for the application of the mutual depend street, now there is a dispute with china in the south, tennessee, and then there are us china tensions over taiwan. and i almost get the impression that the former is really what is important to manila. but it might not have much of a choice when it comes to involvement with the latter. that is over taiwan. do you agree? my sense is the challenger, it now is to get a goal. the last level of american military presence in the philippines. if you look at the statements play, marcus, you nor he constantly talks about this space as will not be used for offensive purposes. that will not be a staging. 2 ground it's constantly talked about the head of this meeting with by then this week that last dollar trade and investment. so market gina is very conscious about not provoking china. so a good the loves presence means that there's not americans and in philippines,

sites under the defense corporation agreement to make trying to think twice about whether invading taiwan or bullying. the philippines were aggressively in the sol genesee, but you want to make sure they're not too many americans, or more importantly to aggressive american weapon systems to broke, provoke, china. and as far as i know, we're still negotiating, how many american troops can enter the philippine basis under the ethical and what kind of weapon systems they can put. is it some artillery system or patriot? we sell systems, those things matter. they're operational, logistical, but up, huge strategic implications. as the market you're still not really committed. you talked about staging, post for military action and prison marco saying that they doesn't want the philippines to be used as a staging force. but as you really get the choice when he is a treaty ally of the united states. yeah, this is where the argument comes in, whereby the administration officials would say this is about the parents. after all, you better be prepared and deter,

rather just pretend that you're neutral when chinese not couldn't treat you neutral . if it things come down to an invasion in the philippines will be treated as the u . s. r. late accordingly, try and i will respond, or actually preemptively deal with the philippines. so better just, you know, dime, if you do dime, if you don't try to better just get prepared for it. but the better argument actually there is that, you know, if the philippines tweaks and twist the level of exercises, that very ties with the u. s. then maybe it will be effective in the jury, china. but, but one thing i really want to talk about here is that everyone talks about invasion of tie one, what the philippines has prepared for is also grades on threats that trying to put posted to the bins. you know, we could talk about cyber adoption, talk about economic sanctions. there are many things that china can do to develop is to retaliate against this. why didn't security cooperation with the united states? and i think those are the things that marcus has to be prepared for because i personally get all the war in the short germinate. my sense is that's also the

calculus of mar goes, but he has to prepare the philippines for grades on retaliations by china. and on that he asked to get maximum insurance and training and backup from the united states. how prepared is money left for any of the grades on tactics should paging jewels to respond to these latest meetings between president biden and brett, macos yeah, the term we use actually the sharp power. so we're not only looking at harassment of our vessels and it's all trying to see, we're not only looking at cyber attacks against the increase that infrastructure. we're also looking at bring, says china, you know, using its influence over a regional over norsen, local government officials, not too pushy for agenda against what manila once for the whole country. that's something that the syllabus has to really be referred for vulnerabilities. extremely high 40 percent of the philippines. national grid is controlled by chinese company. chinese engineers are running

a lot of critical infrastructure in the for being trying to telecom via a filipino partner is also in the philippines has even towers inside military facilities in the philippines multiple times, the philippine main, a part i just shut down this year. so the vulgar bit these tremendous, that's way let's mark was really prepared for this order was he's playing with fire . you know, president michael junior was in beijing of the start of the year. he was meeting president though she, after the latest meeting with president biden, where all philippines, china ties, right. just the other week, the chinese foreign minister visited the philippines to do the kind of troubleshooting. but it's in the meeting, didn't really go that far after the end of the meeting, all the 2 sides with agreed to was just more communication, china, which is what we had an abundance of abundance of under former bread. and that was extremely close to china. so it looks like the bilateral relationship is in toward the crisis right now. but still,

china has an option. marcus will try to reach out to try and i don't know what he's going to offer him, but i think more importantly, the question is, what he's trying to go off to philippines because they offered, they really gave the philippines nothing in those 6 years. that dory extremely charming, the president did that. so i think marcus wants to go back to the chinese again, sooner than later. but he wants to go there with the bargaining cheap. so the, the u. s. alliance could be a bargaining chip also in his dealings with china. all is a pleasure talking to you richard, thanks so much for joining us today. richard to darian and that does it for today because of course, more on our website. we'll see you here tomorrow with. ready eco indian, these bridges are a lie. ah, i mean, colleagues, living route bridges in northeastern indian are woven from intact tre routine, using

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