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over the next two years, on top of the $100 million that the State Department wants to make available to help modernize the Armed Forces of the Philippines .
Carlson said the US is leaving it to the Department of National Defense to decide on what specific projects they want to bankroll with the funds from Washington. The US diplomat said that the improving bilateral relations between the US and the Philippines, which weakened during the previous administration, is not a “counterbalance” to the strengthening partnership between China and the Philippines.
“And so that inherently includes the Philippines as a key partner… If you have countries that don’t share the same leadership goals that don’t share open, free systems…that’s problematic and not meaningful for everyone,” she said in the same forum. “We call upon the PRC to fulfill its treaty obligations under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention to comply with the legally binding decision of the Arbitral Tribunal in 2016 [in favor of the Philippines],” she said.
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