US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japan Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa will visit Manila next week for talks focusing on bolstering defense and economic ties ahead of a summit of their leaders in US next month, Philippine government sources told the GMA News Online Wednesday.
Blinken will first arrive in Manila on March 18 for bilateral talks with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and other senior Philippine officials before their March 20 trilateral ministerial meeting with Kamikawa, the sources said.The top-level meetings follow a series of hostilities between Chinese and Philippine ships and vessels in the disputed South China Sea, which have been denounced by the Philippines along with the United States and Japan.
Both agreed to intensify bilateral relations in a wide range of sectors, including trade and investment and defense cooperation.The government sources said Marcos will visit the United States from April 11 to 13. He will initially have a bilateral meeting with Biden at the White House on April 11 then the two leaders will be joined by Kishida in a trilateral summit, also at the White House, on the same day.
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