President Duterte Decides to Extend Defense Agreement with the U.S.
It looks like President Duterte has finally come around and realized that the CCP not about to make concessions to a country they consider poor and inferior to them:
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has withdrawn a longstanding threat to cancel a defense agreement that allows U.S. military forces to train in his country.
The decision on the Visiting Forces Agreement, or VFA, was announced by Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana at a joint press conference Friday with his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, in Manila.
“The president decided to retract or rescind the VFA termination,” Lorenzana told reporters during the conference, which was streamed online. “We are back on track.” (……..)
Its reprieve is the latest swing for an alliance that has been on shaky ground since the strongman took office in 2016.
Duterte began his presidency by insulting U.S. leaders and stating his intention to move closer to China and Russia.
That hasn’t gotten much traction with China, which has continued to occupy and enlarge artificial islands in the South China Sea that belongs to the Philippines, according to a 2016 international court ruling.
Stars & Stripes
You can read more at the link.
The US badly needs the Philippines, look how they crawl back, despite all the verbal abuses thrown at the US.
Slow day eh? Need a coffee or something? Your trolling’s kinda coming off as lazy and uninspired.
Smokes, that dude has always been lazy and uninspired. I almost miss _____, _____. and _____. (Names withheld to avoid invoking Chinese bots sullying their already shady pasts.)
You’d think, with all the stuff going on in the world on Joey Bivalve’s watch, the CCP could invent something even mildly original, interesting, or even painful. What we get instead is someone whose heart is not in their work.
Truly sad.