"Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday vowed “greater support for external defense” of the Philippines amid rising tensions with China over the Spratlys and invited President Benigno Aquino III to make a state visit to Washington early next year.
Clinton made an overnight stop in Manila en route to the East Asia Summit in Bali, Indonesia, to mark the 60th anniversary of the RP-US Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT), declaring in a news conference at Malacañang that the accord “has to be updated and brought to the 21st century”...........READ MORE
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