RICARDO SALUDO
IN September 2016, this writer wrote about securing the Philippines, and called for scrapping the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), but not the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) and the 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) (https://www.manilatimes.net/for-a-truly-independent-foreign-policy-scrap-edca/285890/).