This year, Manila expressed concern about the Chinese coast guard ships patrolling shut to its coastline.
Iwaya told writers,” I’m very worried that behavior that are escalating the South China Sea are being repeated.”
Because it “directly relates to local peace and stability,” he continued, this was a “legitimate issue for the international community.”
Manalo expressed concern over “unilateral actions that aim to destroy the rule of law in the East and South China Seas” and said “our political stability environment is getting more and more complex and challenging.”
” So we agreed to work together in that environment, not only to address issues in the sense of defence and security, but to strengthen resilience and improve adaptive… power of our nations”.
Japan is a major financier of Spanish efforts to upgrade both its maritime security systems and South China Sea patrol boats.
Iwaya claimed that Manalo and he also agreed to develop their multilateral relationship.
They pledged to “maintain good contact with the next US supervision, to preserve and enhance the speed for our multilateral cooperation”, Iwaya added.
A mutual defense treaty and a 2014 alliance that allow the US military to keep gear on nine Asian bases are among the US’s decades-old security ally with the Philippines.
Marcos “expressed enthusiasm in maintaining the powerful and dynamic connection” between the two friends under the approaching Trump presidency in a phone call with US Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday.
Trump, who will be sworn in as president on Monday, has pushed an” America First” plan based on avoiding unusual issues and mercantilist trade laws.