March 3, 2025 3:55 PM

Philippine, US defence pacts to stay intact, envoy to Washington says

Existing defence agreements between allies the Philippines and the United States will stay intact under U.S. President Donald Trump, Manila's ambassador to the United States said on Monday. The United States and its former colony, the Philippines, are staunch defence allies, with U.S. troops rotating in and out of the Southeast Asian country regularly and dozens of joint exercises held each year. "All of that will remain," Jose Manuel Romualdez said on the sidelines of a forum with foreign med...