WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss growing military ties with the Philippines on Tuesday (Apr 11) before heading to Vietnam and Japan days after a
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met in California with House Speaker Kevin McCarthyThe United States called for restraint by China but privately some officials were relieved the reaction was more muted than in August 2022, when Beijing fired projectiles around and over Taiwan after McCarthy's predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, flew to Taipei.
But experts say the Philippines has increasingly realised that the approach has not brought any progress with China, which has ignored a 2016 international court ruling in favour of Manila over Beijing's sweeping claims in the South China Sea. Vietnam, where Blinken will head later this week before travelling to a Group of Seven meeting in Japan, has also sought closer defence cooperation with the United States despite bitter war memories.
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