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US defence commitments to Japan, Philippines ‘ironclad’: Biden
NEW DELHI [Maha Media]: The United States’ defence commitments to Japan and the Philippines are “ironclad”, US President Joe Biden said as he launched a new trilateral partnership in the Indo-Pacific among the nations.
In a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida here on Thursday, Biden also asserted that any attack on Philippine aircraft, vessels or its armed forces in the South China Sea would invoke “our mutual defence treaty”.
The US-Japan-Philippines trilateral comes after the creation of groupings in the Indo-Pacific, starting with the Quad, comprising India, the US, Australia and Japan, and the AUKUS consisting of Australia, the US and the UK, amid increasing concerns over China’s military muscle-flexing in the region.
The US president said that “a great deal of history in our world will be written in the Indo-Pacific over the coming years”.
“Today we commit to writing that story in the future together to build an Indo-Pacific that is free, open, prosperous and secure for all,” Biden said as he described the US, Japan and the Philippines as “three allies, three steadfast partners and three proud democracies”. Biden said among the key areas where the countries are deepening ties are “first, technology and clean energy for securing our semiconductor supply chain”.
