PRESIDENT Joe Biden told his counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr that the US commitment to the defence of its ally was “ironclad”, including in the South China Sea.
Marcos, on the first White House visit by a Philippine leader in 10 years, stressed the importance of the United States as his country’s sole treaty ally in a region with “arguably the most complicated geopolitical situation in the world right now”.
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