WASHINGTON: Responding to Beijing's aggressive expansion into the trade routes and strategic islands of the South China Sea headlined talks on Monday (May 1) between President Joe Biden and his Philippines counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr at the White House. Marcos Jr is on
WASHINGTON: Responding to Beijing's aggressive expansion into the trade routes and strategic islands of the South China Sea headlined talks on Monday between President Joe Biden and his Philippines counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr at the White House.that follows last week's state visit to Washington by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and a White House meeting in January between Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Marcos Jr referred to"difficult times" and said the Philippines finds itself in a region with"arguably the most complicated geopolitical situation in the world right now". A senior US official said the Marcos Jr visit - which began with a military honour guard outside the White House - was the first"at this level and intensity" between the two countries for decades.
Alarm bells are ringing for Washington and its Asian allies as China moves ever more confidently to assert claims to sovereignty over almost the whole South China Sea - ignoring an international ruling that this has no legal basis.
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