The United States agreed Tuesday to help the Philippines modernize its armed forces while committing to redouble efforts to maintain peace in the Indo-Pacific region based on the rule of law.With China increasingly challenging the existing U.S.-led liberal international order, the agreement to bolster interoperability and shared defense capabilities, especially in the maritime domain, was struck in Washington at a meeting between the defense and foreign secretaries of the longtime security allies."We all reaffirmed today that our mutual defense treaty remains the bedrock of our cooperation,…READ FULL ARTICLE
