WASHINGTON—Defense Department officer in cost Carlito Galvez and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday established the bilateral protection pointers between the 2 nations to modernize the alliance cooperation “for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”
According to a truth sheet from the US Department of Defense, the rules “reaffirmed that an armed attack in the Pacific, including anywhere in the South China Sea, on either of their aircraft or armed forces – which includes their Coast Guards – would invoke mutual defense commitments under the 1951 PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty.”
“Recognizing that threats may arise in several domains—including land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace—and take the form of asymmetric, hybrid, and irregular warfare and gray-zone tactics, the guidelines chart a way forward to build interoperability in both conventional and non-conventional domains,” the DOD truth sheet learn. —NB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
