{"id":45074,"date":"2014-04-27T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45074"},"modified":"2014-04-27T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T17:09:44","slug":"philippinesus-deal-to-return-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45074","title":{"rendered":"Philippines\/US deal to return troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/us-philippines-reach-10-year-deal-on-troops-1.280277\">Associated Press<\/a>, the US has signed a defense pact with the government of the Philippines for the next ten years. I guess that after a few decades without us, the Filipinos decided that we&#8217;re better than nothing; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;The Philippines&#8217; immediate and urgent motivation is to strengthen itself and look for a security shield with its pitiful military,&#8221; Manila-based political analyst Ramon Casiple said. &#8220;The U.S. is looking for a re-entry to Asia, where its superpower status has been put in doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The convergence would work to deter China&#8217;s increasingly assertive stance in disputed territories, Casiple said. But it could further antagonize Beijing, which sees such tactical alliance as a U.S. strategy to contain its rise, and encourage China to intensify its massive military buildup, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of American military personnel have been deployed in the southern Philippines since 2002 to provide counterterrorism training and serve as advisers to Filipino soldiers, who have battled Muslim militants for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement states that the U.S. would &#8220;not establish a permanent military presence or base in the Philippines&#8221; in compliance with Manila&#8217;s constitution. A Filipino base commander would have access to entire areas to be shared with American forces, according to the primer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, the US has signed a defense pact with the government of &hellip; <a title=\"Philippines\/US deal to return troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45074\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philippines\/US deal to return troops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}