By bno - Taipei Office The Philippines is a bit of an oddball in Southeast Asia: a country economically tethered to the ...

Last week, Duterte withdrew a year-and-a-half-old threat to cancel a key security pact with the U.S. — the Philippines-United States Visiting Forces Agreement. The 1998 VFA makes it easier for U ...

Old maps dating back to Spanish colonial ... For US$20 million, the treaty gave away the Philippines to the United States following the humiliating defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War ...

The United States and the Republic of the Philippines have a longstanding relationship founded on colonialism, power imbalances, violence, deception, and positive progress that remains at once a ...