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00:00Before we continue, we reached the Philippines this evening.
00:04U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
00:07the Ambassador to the United States, Jose Manuel Romualdez,
00:10is important and critical in strengthening the relationship between the Philippines and America
00:14in his visit.
00:16We continue with J.P. Soriano.
00:22U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will visit the Philippines for the first time.
00:28A few days after the Chinese Coast Guard surrounded and blocked the Philippine ships
00:35and fishing boats of the Filipinos in Scarborough Shore or Bajo de Macinloc in the West Philippine Sea.
00:41Bajo de Macinloc is within the exclusive economic zone or EEZ of the Philippines
00:47and part of the territory of the country.
00:50These actions of China are monitored by the U.S. Defense Department
00:55to find out how we can help.
00:58This visit is about what Secretary Teodoro and Secretary Hegseth can do
01:07to show China that we are serious and we will not give up.
01:13They will dominate the area, especially within our territorial waters.
01:17That's why the meeting between Secretary Teodoro and Hegseth
01:21will be considered important and critical for the two countries.
01:26This visit is a serious discussion by Secretary Teodoro
01:32because the new mantra of the Trump administration is deterrence to strength.
01:40In other words, we need to strengthen our AMP and our interoperability
01:51U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth has not yet arrived in the Philippines.
01:55He was immediately alerted by China.
01:57According to the Foreign Ministry of China,
02:00whatever defense agreement the Philippines will make with the United States,
02:04it should not target any country and should not hurt their interests,
02:11especially to be a threat to regional peace and raise tensions in the region.
02:18We are not in conflict.
02:21That's why sometimes we get confused as to why we, as the CDCC, are starting a conflict.
02:30And what happened there is precisely because our relationship is being challenged,
02:36not only with the U.S. but with other countries as well,
02:40that we cannot and will not allow any one country to dominate the South China Sea.
02:46Secretary Hegseth and President Bongbong Marcos were also invited.
02:51For GMA Integrated News, I am JP Soriano, your witness.
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