Biden, Marcos seek ways to check China

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WASHINGTON: Moves to check Beijing's aggressive expansion into the trade routes and strategic islands of the South China Sea will headline talks between President Joe Biden and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House.

Marcos arrived in Washington Sunday for a four-day trip highlighted by the meeting with Biden.'It is clear that we're in a deeply consequential period in terms of our Indo-Pacific engagements,' a senior US official told reporters ahead of Marcos' arrival.'It's really the first kind of meeting at this level and intensity between the United States and the Philippines in decades,' said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The US official said Biden would also meet separately during that trip in a trilateral format with the leaders of Japan and South Korea. He then heads to Australia for a session of the Quad group: Australia, India, Japan and the United States.The chartered Philippine Airlines plane carrying Marcos and his delegation arrived at the Joint Base Andrews at 4:56 p.m. Sunday.

 

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