President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Philippines will not deploy troops should tensions in the Taiwan Strait escalate, assuring that sites under the Edca will not be used for offensive military action. | DYGalvezINQ
“The Edca sites were conceptualized to be the places that we could use so as to be able to provide a quicker relief, quicker rescue, and do a better job of rehabilitating and reconstructing the damage that will be caused by these disasters,” Marcos said.became part of that mission and that’s why it became sensitive. That is why China has been terribly critical,” he also said.
To quell China’s fears, Marcos said he has personally assured Chinese foreign minister Shin Gang during a recent meeting that the Edca sites are not intended to launch any attack against China.“The foreign minister of China just visited with me … and I told him and I assured him that no, these are not … intended to be military bases to attack, to move against anyone, any country, not China, not any country,” he said.
Marcos said the use of Edca bases for “offensive action” would be outside the parameters of what Manila had discussed with the United States and added that Washington had never brought up the possibility that they would be used as “staging areas” for offensive action against any country.
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