The United States and the Philippines will share real-time intelligence about China’s military activities in the Pacific, the Pentagon said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Philippine counterpart, Carlito Galvez, established the Bilateral Defense Guidelines on May 3.
As part of that agreement, the two nations will increase their military coordination and interoperability, including by “striving toward real-time information sharing” and “broadening information sharing on early indicators of threats to the peace and security of both countries.”
The two powers also affirmed that their mutual defense agreements will extend to any attack that takes place on either power in the region, meaning a Chinese assault on the Philippines would draw a military response from the United States and vice versa….