President Rodrigo Duterte continued his attack on the United States Sunday by threatening to junk the country’s Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the US, a pact that allows American forces to conduct activities on agreed locations inside Philippine military bases.
Duterte, in a speech during the opening of the MassKara festival in Bacolod City, said that EDCA, whose constitutionality was affirmed by the Supreme Court in July this year, can be scrapped because it wasn’t signed by former President Benigno Aquino 3rd.
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