ON April 11, US President Joseph Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and our own President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to forge a "trilateral partnership [to] further peace and security in the Indo-Pacific and around the world," along with economic, technological and climate goals, the White House said on March 18. Presidents Biden and Marcos will also "review the historic momentum in US-Philippines relations," and Biden "will reaffirm the ironclad alliance" between us and the United States.
At or before this summit meeting, it's expected that President Marcos will renew the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), allowing US forces to increase deployment in our country with the use of nine bases of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and probably many more sites.
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