Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and author of "The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Global Mastery."
The Philippine-U.S. alliance is experiencing an unexpected renaissance under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who has welcomed a dramatic expansion in bilateral security cooperation amid rising tensions in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
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