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WASHINGTON—Defense Department officer in charge Carlito Galvez and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday established the bilateral defense guidelines between the two countries to modernize the alliance cooperation "for a free and open Indo-Pacific region." According to a fact sheet from the US Department of Defense, the guidelines "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...

“Beyond that, there are also issues, geopolitical issues that make the region... the Philippines is, possibly, arguably the most complicated geopolitical situation in the world right now,” Marcos said. “And so it is only natural that... for the Philippines to look to its sole treaty partner in the world, to strengthen and to redefine the relationship that we have and the roles that we play in the face of these... tensions that we see now around the South China Sea and the Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific region,” he added.

WASHINGTON - United States President Joe Biden said on Monday (Washington time) that he would send a trade and investment mission to the Philippines.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Sunday said he will relay to US President Joe Biden his willingness to forge an even stronger relationship with the superpower country. 

At a summit on Monday, US President Joe Biden and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr are expected to reach agreements on greater business engagement, as well as "military enhancements" amid shared concerns about China, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters.