‘China tactics pushed PH to closer alliance with US’

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US President Joe Biden with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. during the bilateral meeting at the oval office of the White House in Washington D.C. on May 01, 2023. KJ Rosales, PPA/pool MANILA — Changes in the geopolitics and China's continuing aggression in the South China Sea led the Philippines to intensify its relations with the United States, analysts have said. Manila and Washington this week issued the bilateral defense guidelines, which laid out plans to modernize alliance cooperation for the two countries' "shared vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region." The guidelines, which experts considered as an expanded...