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China’s Military Aggression Means the U.S.-Philippines Relationship Will Survive Despite Duterte’s Slurs

Posted September 8th, 2016 at 11:21 am (UTC-5)
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Despite the friction, an increasingly assertive China cements the underlying relationship between the two nations….Faced with such aggression, Manila recently agreed to welcome back US forces, giving them access to a handful of Filipino military bases…