US forces returning to Philippines to counter China threats

Trees and wild vines grow beside abandoned concrete structures called 'Quonset huts' formerly used as barracks for US Marines in what used to be America's largest overseas naval base at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Zambales province, northwest of Manila. - AP

SUBIC BAY (Philippines) (AP): Once-secret ammunition bunkers and barracks lay abandoned, empty and overrun by weeds - vestiges of American firepower in what used to be the United States' largest overseas naval base at Subic Bay in the northern Philippines.

But that may change in the near future.