...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Patrols show increasing confidence © Oxford Analytica 2024. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

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...Oxford Analytica Significance In July, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte decided to retain the Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), having in 2020 mandated its termination. Duterte’s single, six-year term ends next June, but he says he will run for vice president in May’s elections...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Washington will greet U-turn guardedly © Oxford Analytica 2021. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Manila will not scrap key pact © Oxford Analytica 2021. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

... with, endorse or have checked for accuracy the contents of said sites. 2021 Philippines United States AP China South-east Asia United Nations PHILIPPINES/US international relations politics defence government military security shipping talks treaty foreign investment health human...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: U-turn on pact shows Philippine need © Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

...Oxford Analytica Subject Philippine-US security ties. Significance President Rodrigo Duterte’s government earlier this month notified Washington that Manila was withdrawing from the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which provides a legal framework for US military personnel to deploy...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: End to pact would impact region PHILIPPINES/US: Manila yesterday sent official notification to Washington that it is terminating the Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). President Rodrigo Duterte had late last month threatened to take...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Duterte rant will not hurt ties © Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

... a delegation to Washington later this month. Manila hopes to conclude negotiations on a Philippines-US FTA in three years. Apart from opening a door to the new administration in Washington, an FTA with the United States would be insurance for Philippine exports when Manila eventually "graduates" from...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Human rights talk may provoke Duterte © Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Defence and diplomatic ties could warm PHILIPPINES/US: Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Eduardo Ano has stated that Philippine-US defence cooperation will again increase, reports say today. This follows Ano's report that President Rodrigo...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Defence construction may not help ties © Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Ending EDCA could hurt Duterte more PHILIPPINES/US: President Rodrigo Duterte is considering cancelling the 2014 Philippines-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), reports said today. The EDCA was declared constitutional in January...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Foreign policy may strain 'Asia pivot' PHILIPPINES/US: Philippine foreign minister Perfecto Yasay underscored today that the Philippines is not "breaking away" from military ally the United States or its "treaty arrangement", after President Rodrigo...

... rotation (see PHILIPPINES/US: Deal to benefit Manila's military - February 5, 2016). The United States was the Philippines' leading trade partner until China pushed it into second place in 2006. It has stayed in second place since (except for 2010), with 18 billion dollars of trade in 2015...

...Oxford Analytica Headline PHILIPPINES/US: Further frictions could embolden China © Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice...

...Oxford Analytica Subject The Philippines-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. Significance Philippines and US officials will meet shortly to crystalize the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)'s implementation, although the deal had another complaint filed against it before...