Blinken, currently in Manila for an official visit where he held talks with Philippine counterpart Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, and with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., also highlighted the importance of “sustaining” and further “accelerating” its decades-old alliance with the Philippines in the face of regional and global challenges.“These waterways are critical to the Philippines, to its security, to its economy.
During their meeting, Blinken said he and Manalo “shared concerns” on the recent incidents in the South China Sea that “threaten” the “common vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific.”In one of the alarming hostilities at the Philippine held Ayungin Shoal or Second Thomas Shoal on March 5, Chinese Coast Guard ships blocked, shadowed and surrounded Philippine Coast Guard and supply vessels.
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