The Philippines will benefit from $9 billion in initiatives that would be launched by Washington in response to China's continued aggression and in deterrence to Indo-Pacific threats, a US senator visiting Manila disclosed on Thursday, August 3. READ:
Speaking before select Philippine reporters in Makati City, Senator Rick Scott said a new initiative—the Pacific Deterrence Initiative—will step up the Philippines and the US' strategy in countering China's aggression in the region, among other purposes.
According to the overview provided by the US Defense website, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative has been taken as the department "is prioritizing China as its preeminent pacing challenge." It added that "a great amount of the Department's investments and efforts are focused on this threat and strengthening Indo-Pacific deterrence.
Earlier, the US Congress already granted the Philippines $100 million dollars for the latter's military modernization program. Scott, a member of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, said the US may send arms to the Philippines, depending on what the two governments would work out. Scott left the Philippines on Thursday noon after meeting with key officials from the Philippine departments on the frontline of upholding the country's territorial integrity.
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