TOP security officials of the Philippines and the United States have agreed to continue coordinating in addressing challenges facing the South China Sea, with Washington committing the "applicability" of the two nations' 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan spoke over the phone with Philippine National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Thursday (Manila time), to discuss the massing of Chinese vessels at the Julian Felipe (Whitsun) reef over the past months.
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