Press TV: The Saturday protest, organized by the leftist New Nationalist Alliance (Bayan), was staged to denounce the ongoing negotiations between Manila and Washington to deploy more US troops and ships in the Philippines.
“If we allow more US troops to enter our country, the entire archipelago will be transformed into one military outpost for US hegemonic interests,” Bayan announced in a statement distributed at the rally.
Philippine officials say they plan to hold more joint military drills and let more US troops rotate through the southeast Asian country, which is already involved in increasingly tense territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea.
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