MANILA, Philippines --- The Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippines is "inutile" and should be reexamined, former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in a video uploaded on Tuesday on the YouTube channel of the Integrated Development Studies Institute (IDSI). "I think the Mutual Defense Treaty --- because the conditions by which we adopted the Mutual Defense Treaty are no longer in existence --- should also be reexamined in this regard. Now, having said that, the Mutual Defense Treaty has also proven to be inutile because twice we have lost islands, and the United States did not come to our rescue," Roque said. "We lost Mischief Reef. We lost ...
Keep on reading: MDT is ‘inutile’: No US aid when PH islands occupied – Roque
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Keep on reading: MDT is ‘inutile’: No US aid when PH islands occupied – Roque
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