An End to U.S.-Philippine Defense Cooperation?

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The Atlantic Wire (RSS) 9 hours ago

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NEWS BRIEF The Philippines announced Friday plans to cancel future joint military exercises with the United States in the South China Sea—a marked break in defense cooperation between the long-standing allies that follows weeks of rhetoric aimed at the U.S. by the new Filipino president. “This year would be the last,” Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, said Friday of the countries’ joint military exercises. Addressing the U.S. directly, he said: “For as long as I am there, do not treat us like a doormat because you’ll be sorry for it. I will not speak with you. I can always go to China.” In addition to halting military exercises between the two countries, Delfin Lorenzana, the ...