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The United States plans to transfer a Coast Guard cutter to the Philippines to bolster the latter’s maritime security amid ongoing tensions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the vessel transfer following a high-level bilateral meeting with Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr. on Saturday, May 30, on the sidelines of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

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00:22We also support your efforts to monitor your exclusive economic zone and defend
00:28your interests in the South China Sea, which is important.
00:32It's great to see us complete a new 15-year communications interoperability, something you
00:38talk about all the time, and security memorandum agreement.
00:42And we continue to make great progress on posture enhancements across the Philippines
00:47as well, where our forces train and exercise.
00:51So we're going to take this defense partnership even further, both here in public but also
00:56private and behind the scenes in really meaningful ways that are a reflection of your steadfast
01:01support.
01:01So I want to thank you for your leadership.
01:03Thank you for your friendship.
01:05As you said earlier, the renewal of the interoperability and security memorandum of agreement for another
01:1415 years lays the foundation, among other things, with the work that we are doing to make all
01:23of us more resilient, more deterrent, and more responsible, actually, to the world in our
01:31area and in the Indo-Pacific region.
01:36We also have been doing a lot of work in securing our supply chains, which is necessary for the
01:43Philippines as well as it is to the United States and our treaty partners and allies.
01:47So please, let us pause to stop the irgendwie.
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01:53be going to change the likelihood right now in that end. And so,
01:54we can push our teams up to our of the immediate inherent outcomes, who have been required.
01:59And we have
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