Security risks of EDCA under the Marcos Jr. administration


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By Rommel C. Banlaoi, PhD “Beijing…expresses tremendous security anxieties that EDCA sites hosting US military facilities in the Philippines are discreetly targeting China, meant to deter this growing Asian power from its persistent assertion of sovereignties in Taiwan and in the South China Sea.” Defense Department (DND) Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino Jr. has announced the construction of five additional American military facilities in Philippine bases across Luzon to boost the implementation of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Locations of these new facilities have been identified: two in Cagayan and one each in Isabela, Palawan, and Zambales. The original five facilities...