WASHINGTON --- US President Joe Biden and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will agree on Monday to new guidelines for stronger military cooperation, US officials said, underscoring a dramatic turnaround in US-Philippine relations over the past year. The guidelines focus on military coordination across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, while the US administration will also transfer three C-130 aircraft and look to send additional patrol vessels to the Philippines. Biden will also reaffirm a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty that calls for the United States to act in the event of an armed attack on the Philippine military, the officials said in a briefing call for reporter...
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