{"id":669,"date":"2025-01-13T04:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:11:33","slug":"japan-philippines-u-s-vow-to-deepen-cooperation-manila-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Philippines, U.S. vow to deepen cooperation, Manila says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEWS\uff1a<\/strong>Japan, the Philippines and the United States vowed to further strengthen their ties under a trilateral arrangement in the face of growing tensions in regional waters, Manila said on Monday following a call among their leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three countries &#8220;agreed to enhance and deepen economic, maritime and technology cooperation&#8221;, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.&#8217;s office said in a statement after a virtual meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba that was held on Monday morning Asian time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that our three countries will continue to work together closely to sustain the gains that we have made in enhancing and deepening our ties,&#8221; Marcos said during the meeting, according to a readout from his communications office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call followed a first-of-its-kind summit meeting of Marcos, Biden and then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington last April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcos&#8217; office said Biden also commended the Philippine leader for his diplomatic response &#8220;to China\u2019s aggressive and coercive activities in the South China Sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden was quoted as saying he is &#8220;optimistic&#8221; his successor would see the value of continuing the partnership. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will assume office next Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan and the Philippines are both involved in separate territorial disputes with China in the East and South China Seas, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2016 ruling of an international arbitral tribunal voided Beijing&#8217;s sweeping claims for the South China Sea, saying they had no basis under international law, a decision China rejects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions between China and the Philippines have escalated in the past two years over run-ins between their coast guards in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fn-2025-01-13-12-54-15-0.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fn-2025-01-13-12-54-15-0.png 902w, http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fn-2025-01-13-12-54-15-0-300x143.png 300w, http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fn-2025-01-13-12-54-15-0-768x366.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS\uff1aJapan, the Philippines and the United States vowed to further strengthen their ties under a trilateral arrangement in the face of growing tensions in regional waters, Manila said on Monday following a call among their leaders. The three countries &#8220;agreed to enhance and deepen economic, maritime and technology cooperation&#8221;, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.&#8217;s office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brothers-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}