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ah, i 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, ardent lab. it's what president joe biden said to philippines. president fat man macros. junior. during the 1st white house visit by a philippines leader in 10, yes. 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. this includes islands, which manila claimed sovereignty over sovereignty that increasingly being challenged by beijing. on the south china sea, a tense standoff comes to a head. a chinese coast guards ship steams directly in front of

a philippines patrol vessel, cutting off his journey toward the nearby sprightly islands the collision corps set by the chinese. despite earlier communications in the nation. we are needing according to our requests, from our classes in regulations over in the us over the brucely relationship from china. and we hope you can co operate with our do not take a appropriate behaviors which we are in for fear with math times karen. the philippines ship 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 man. marcos junior has insisted that china will not trample on philippines. right at sea level, during a visit basing and january marco's. and his chinese counterpart, she's paying agreed to a friendly handling of maritime spats. but just weeks later, the philippines accuse china, a blinding a coast guard crew with a laser light middle is 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 lived fire exercise on territory in the south china sea . a demonstration of joint fire cower that's drawn beijing's eyer. now in

washington, marcos was met with a warm welcome from us president joe biden. and a pledge of military support. united states also reminds iron clad nor remains on our commitment to the defense of the philippines, including the south china sea biden. and marcos 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, manila granted the u. s. access to several additional philippines, bases and 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 also 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 increase chances of a real confrontation with bridging? well, as far as the statement, iron cloud is concerned, this is kind of a shade magically shade that the united states use this. we not only treat the like the philippines, but we hear also doctor, when the united states talks about its relationship with gulf countries, persian gulf countries in the middle east, for instance. so i think that wore it doesn't care as much water except when the, by the administration, employer flies, the parameters of michelle defense. tricky with the, to the beans. 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 bide in 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 the mutual 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 journalists were accompanying the philippine coast guard. and few months ago you hot chinese worship reporting the point in 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 and see to this iron club statements by the, by the ration. but what comprises an attack on philippine feelers? 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 coast guard, 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 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 philip in the contra works have been seriously discussing. but that will be a very, very, let's say, formal process because we really have to pin down water going to be the guidelines

that will go for the application of the michel depend street. now there is the 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 charlie is right now is to get a goal. the last level of american military presence in the philippines. if you look at the statement play, marcus, you nor he constantly talks about this space as will not be used for offensive purposes. there will not be a staging ground. each constantly talked about the head of this meeting with by then this week that was all by 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 philippine 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 myself systems? those things matter, your operational, logistical but up, huge strategic implications. as the market you're still not really committed. you're, you're, you talked about staging, post for military action and prison. mock are saying that he 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, and 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 neutrality, it things come down to an invasion, and the philippines will be treated as the u. s. r lane. accordingly, china will respond, or actually preemptively deal with the philippines. so better just, you know, dime if you do down, 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 twists, the level of exist faxes at that very time, but with the u. s, then maybe it will be effective and the jury, china. 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 brits that trying to put, posted the philippines. you know, we could talk about cyber adoption, talk about it and sanctions. there are many things that china can do to develop needs to retaliate against this. why do me security cooperation with the united states? and i think those are the things that marcus has to be prepared for because i personally doubt all war in the short terminate. my sense is that's also the

calculus of marcos. but he has to prepare the philippines for grades on retaliations by china. and on that he asked to get maximum assurance and training and backup from the united states. how prepared is money left, any of the grades on tactics should paging jewels to respond to these latest meetings between president biden and marcos. the term we use actually 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 governor. so local government officials are to push agenda against what manella 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 port shot down this year. so the vulnerabilities, tremendous that's way let's hope marcos is really prepared for ottawa. 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 this latest meeting with felton biden, where all philippines, china ties. right. so just the other week, the chinese foreign minister visited the philippines to do the kind of troubleshooting. but it seemed that 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 president. that was extremely close to china. so it looks like the bilateral issues 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 offer the philippines because they offered, they really gave the philippines nothing in those 6 years that the re, extremely trauma with 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 bargain, and she also, in his dealings with china, all of the pleasure talking to ritual. thanks so much for joining us today. richard had aaron and that does it for to wave is of course more on our website cuz you have to morrow with we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner check hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot d w,

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