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President Trump announced new trade deals with the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan, including zero tariffs on US goods to the Philippines, a 19% tariff on Filipino exports, and a 15% tariff on imports from Japan, marking significant shifts in US trade policy amid ongoing trade tensions.
President Joe Biden welcomed Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for White House talks, reiterating U.S. commitment to the Philippines’ security amid concerns about the Chinese navy’s harassment of Philippine vessels in the South China Sea. The U.S. and the Philippines last week completed their largest war drills ever, and the two countries’ air forces on Monday will hold their first joint fighter jet training in the Philippines since 1990. The Philippines this year agreed to give the U.S. access to four more bases on the islands as the U.S. looks to deter China’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea.
US and Filipino troops sank a decommissioned corvette of the Philippine Navy during a littoral live-fire drill in the South China Sea, marking the first time in the history of the US-Philippines bilateral exercise. The exercise involved detecting, identifying, targeting, and engaging the corvette using a variety of ground and air-based weapons systems. The training aimed to increase the exercise's realism and complexity, strengthening military capabilities in full-spectrum military operations across all domains.