Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assured China it was not a target.
US President Joe Biden escorts Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to their trilateral summit at the White House.
“It is going to change the dynamic, the dynamic that we see in the region, in Asean, in Asia, around the South China Sea,” Mr Marcos said. China claims almost the entire South China Sea despite a 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration found Beijing’s sweeping claims had no legal basis. Mr Biden has asked Congress for an additional US$128 million for infrastructure projects at the Philippine bases.
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