US won’t return bases, but lauds RP offer forincreased military presence 01/29/2012

US won’t return bases, but lauds RP offer forincreased military presence

01/29/2012
WASHINGTON — The United States has welcomed the Philippines’ offer to allow more US troops on its territory, saying it would boost US power in Asia, and assured it was not seeking to re-establish bases in the former colony.

The Philippines the other day said it planned to hold more joint exercises and to let more American troops rotate through the Southeast Asian country which is embroiled in increasingly tense territorial disputes with China.

“We would welcome discussions with the Philippines along those lines, but there’s no aspiration for bases in Southeast Asia,” Adm..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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