Can the Philippines have a strong external defense without the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement boosting America’s military deployment and access to Philippine bases?

There’s something wrong with that question. Even with more US forces in the Philippines under the agreement, they will not fight to defend our territorial claims, so why would scrapping the EDCA matter?

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