Japan and the Philippines have made clear that they will strengthen trilateral security cooperation between them and the United States, their common ally.
Aiming to deter China from its attempts to change the status quo by force in the East and South China Seas and prevent a contingency in Taiwan, the nations will deepen cooperation in peacetime through joint exercises and maritime surveillance activities.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during a summit in Tokyo on Thursday with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., expressed his intention to expand bilateral cooperation in the security and economic fields.
