President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. tells the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement that allows access to bases in the Philippines was conceived to deal with the effects of climate change.
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Thursday, June 4, his agreement this year to grant the United States access to more military bases in his country was not intended for use for “offensive action” against any country.
that allows access to bases in the Philippines was conceived to deal with the effects of climate change. He said use of EDCA bases for “offensive action” would be outside the parameters of what Manila had discussed with the United States and added that Washington had never brought up the possibility that they would be used as “staging areas” for offensive action against any country.Manila’s ties with Washington have deepened under Marcos and he granted the US military access to four more bases in February, something China said was “stoking the fire” of regional tension.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said after a meeting of the defense and foreign ministers of the United States and the Philippines last month that it was “too early” to discuss what assets the United States would like to station at Philippine bases.
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