recently tying, these forces use was a cut on to prevent supply ship from accessing the philippines military outpost, which is in the disputed area. the philippines, as they will not tolerate such incidents or commitment to maintain v or pc or a match rate will always be that. so any attempt by china to interfere with resupply emissions will be met by the philippines in a fashion that protects our troops. we spoke with heart road car, former presidential spokes, boston for the philippines, and the size of the country is con. guffman is relying on the united states support in case there is a further escalation in hospitalized ease of china. they would only be an escalation department, but it's like a really negative stain comes. so that's, it depends on the philippines because of the mutual defense treat email, which is the collective security agreement that really means cops after that the united states. they've gone through east west to but um, actually i see no basis for the americans to declare war against their child that i, exclusively, on the basis of that these be that, that he's already in t

the former spokesman says the deal borrows the philippines from shipping construction materials to a military outpostn the south china sea. tensions with china are set to dominate thursday's summit with the philippines, japanese, and american leaders. chinese president xi jinping met with former taiwan president in beijing on wednesday. they shook hands at the great hall of the people in a rare act of diplomatic engagements. in comments that appeared aimed at the u.s., xi said external interference cannot stop the historical trend of national reunification. marr is the first former taiwan leader to visit the chinese capital. haidi: we are getting some reaction, some commentary coming through from japanese policymakers when it comes to the moves we have seen in the yen. this is the vice minister of finance speaking at the moment, saying that they will take appropriate steps on ethics as needed and not ruling out any options. the recent moves they have seen in fx are rapid and policymakers are prepared to address any event. they are not judging based on specific levels but excessive fx moves are bad fo

long as israel continues to act as a neo colonial outpost in the middle east. china has slammed upcoming joy military drills between the us and the philippines in the southeast asian countries waters. they jane has warned manella against becoming what he calls washington's and puppet. a tablet i'm from one to china, strongly opposes the us deploying medium range ballistic missiles from the asia pacific and strengthening forward deployment of china doorstep to seek your new lot . strong military advantage is the as to earnestly respect all the country security concerns. stop stoughton, military confrontation, stop online and peace and stability in the region and take concrete actions to reduce strategic risk. the philippines needs to think twice about would be a catch fall for the us at the expense of its solid security interest and stop sliding down the wrong path. the us military has deployed, that's new, mid range, ground based missiles to the end of pacific region. for the 1st time i had of the drills and more games, which will last, almost 3 weeks are due to start on monday. and the china isn't the only country raising the alarm. single

philippines and china. this is something -- he struck a deal that bars manila from shipping construction materials to a military outposte south china sea. marcos saying he's horrified by that. can you tell us more about the details of that agreement and whether or not it's going to stand? manolo: marcos made these comments before he flew out of manila. yesterday. basically he is saying, up until now there's no record or documentation of this gentlemen's agreement between the former president and the chinese government. basically burying manila from sending over construction materials to a military outpost. basically a world war ii era ship. marcos is saying to do that. if that's true, it is surrendering sovereignty. it is something that the government is not about to do. right now, his government is reaching out to former government officials. not the president, not the x leader himself. until now, they haven't gotten a straight answer as of yet. paul: all rail -- all right. thank you so much for joining us there. brent crude prices spiked with the u.s. and its allies set to believe major strikes by aronowitz proxies a

philippines is trying not to poke the bear really. it's trying to be as calm as it can in terms of what it needs to do. it needs to resupply a military outpostr a quarter century. hopefully asserting its claims, within its exclusive zone. obviously it's hoping that china would not propose those efforts. haslinda: we know that marcos is in d.c. for the second time in less than a year. suggesting deepening relationships between the philippines as well as the u.s. what kind of cooperation can we expect beyond defense? manolo: actually, what they've been doing -- outside of the defense ties, what they've been doing, the u.s. has supporting -- been supporting efforts to boost infrastructure. right now, there was an agreement between the u.s. for an economic corridor in the main philippine island. that will involve construction of rail, modernizing ports, boosting semiconductors. and it involves actually -- that corridor would include, would cover the two former military bases which are now economic zones. beyond that, i think there was also a grant by the u.s. to a philippine mining company to help push the philippine bid to encourage down trade