KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama heads to the Philippines on Monday for the most complex leg of his Asian tour balancing act of reassuring allies wary of a rising China while avoiding antagonizing Beijing.
Obama will land in Manila hours after the allies sign a new defense agreement allowing rotations of US troops and ships through the Philippines, part of a US rebalancing of military power towards rising Asia.
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