{"id":95480,"date":"2020-02-11T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95480"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:54:03","slug":"the-philippines-notifies-the-us-of-intent-to-end-a-military-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95480","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines Notifies the US of Intent to end a Military Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60510\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/USS-Essex-466x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/USS-Essex-466x333.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/USS-Essex-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Air and sea exercise during one of the exercises held near the Philippines.\u00a0 (Navy\/Class Mark R. Alvarez\/Released)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philippine&#8217;s president, Dutarte, made good on his desire to notify the U.S. of his intention to end an agreement related to U.S. forces in the Philippines. Both countries engage in bilateral military exercises in training areas in and around the Philippines. This brings American service members into the country for both training and recreation.<\/p>\n<p>This move appears to have started from a decision, by the US, to cancel the visa of one of Dutarte&#8217;s allies, Ronald dela Rosa. He is associated with human rights violations involving anti-drug enforcement. He&#8217;s currently serving in the Filipino senate.<\/p>\n<p>Dutarte attempted to get the decision, with the visa, reversed. However, the U.S. side didn&#8217;t meet his demand. The US and the Philippines now have 180 days to take action to save it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Military Times:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The accord, known by its acronym VFA, legally allows the entry of large numbers of American forces along with U.S. military ships and aircraft for joint training with Filipino troops. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It specifies which country will have jurisdiction over American soldiers, who may be accused of crimes while in the Philippines<\/span><\/strong>, a sensitive issue in the former American colony.<\/p>\n<p>A separate defense pact subsequently signed by the allies in 2014, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, allows the extended stay of U.S. forces and authorizes them to build and maintain barracks and warehouses and store defense equipment and weapons inside five designated Philippine military camps.<\/p>\n<p>A Filipino senator and former national police chief, Panfilo Lacson, said terminating the treaty would reduce the two allies&#8217; 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty &#8220;to a mere paper treaty as far as the U.S. is concerned.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those, in the Philippines, who oppose this decision point to the need for the US when dealing with China. The Chinese claim a large section of the South China Sea, placing its non-recognized borders against that of southeast Asian countries that have competing claims in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Military Times has the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/11\/philippines-notifies-us-of-intent-to-end-major-security-pact\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine&#8217;s president, Dutarte, made good on his desire to notify the U.S. of his intention to &hellip; <a title=\"The Philippines Notifies the US of Intent to end a Military Agreement\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95480\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Philippines Notifies the US of Intent to end a Military Agreement<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95480","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95532,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95480\/revisions\/95532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}