The claim of the president of the Philippines about the tripartite agreement with America and Japan!

report Mehr News Agency, according to Reuters, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., referring to his country’s cooperation with the United States and Japan in the South China Sea, said that this cooperation will change the dynamics in this region. and at the same time claimed that Manila’s goal is to reassure China!

Marcos said in a press conference after the meeting with US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: I believe that this tripartite agreement is very It is important and it will change the vibrancy and movements in the region, in “ASEAN” and around the South China Sea.

During this meeting, the leaders of these three countries expressed their concern about what was called China’s dangerous and hostile behavior in the South Sea. The South China Sea is the annual passage of more than 3 trillion dollars of goods on ships, and at the same time, it is also a place of dispute between China and several other countries.

However, Marcos claimed that the tripartite summit was not “against any country” but focused on deepening economic and security ties between Manila, Washington and Tokyo!

China claims almost all of the South China Sea. Meanwhile, the Permanent Court of Arbitration claimed in a ruling in 2016 that China’s full ownership claim has no legal basis!

Philippines and China faced each other several times in maritime incidents last month, including verbal tension and the use of water cannon between the coast guard. He mentioned two countries.

Biden has asked Congress for $128 million in surplus funds to build infrastructure projects at bases in the Philippines. The Philippines, the United States, Japan and Australia also held a joint military exercise last week in a provocative move in the South China Sea.