Filipino politicians and scholars said the recently released defence guidelines between the United States and the Philippines violate the latter’s national sovereignty, escalating regional tensions, and called for an end to defence treaties with the United States.
Former congresswoman Liza Maza said in a forum on Thursday that the guidelines “unduly and dangerously” opened up Philippine national strategies, defence plans, budgets, intelligence gatherings and other matters to the United States.
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