US-Philippines: Resetting the Security Alliance?

Julius Cesar Trajano

Agenparl

25 February 2021

This article first appeared as an RSIS Commentary, view the original commentary in the source above.

Despite Duterte’s desire to shift Philippine security policy away from its treaty alliance with the US, Manila remains a close American ally. Key domestic, strategic and humanitarian factors actually make the alliance healthier, wrote RSIS Research Fellow, Julius Cesar Trajano, in a commentary. He added that the Biden administration might just wait for Duterte to finish his term in a year’s time.

…Julius Cesar Trajano is Research Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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