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US Firms Set to Invest $1 Billion in Philippines, Commerce Secretary Says

Last updated: 2024/03/12 at 7:45 AM
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A variety of main American companies are set to announce greater than $1 billion in investments within the Philippines, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated yesterday.

Raimondo made the feedback whereas on a two-day commerce and funding mission to the Philippines together with executives from 22 companies, together with United Airways, Google, Visa, Mastercard, Bechtel, and Microsoft.

Talking to the press in Manila yesterday, Reuters reported, Raimondo stated that Washington was dedicated to increasing commerce and funding within the Philippines as a part of the Indo-Pacific Financial Framework, the financial adjunct to its Indo-Pacific technique. The investments might be in a spread of sectors, together with electrical autos, photo voltaic vitality, and digitization, she added.

“The U.S.-Philippine alliance is ironclad,” Raimondo stated on the press briefing, which adopted a meeting with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on the Malacañang Palace, The Related Press reported. “It’s sustained over 72 years and we stay steadfast buddies and more and more companions in prosperity.”

Raimondo additionally held talks with Philippine Secretary of Commerce and Business Alfredo Pascual and Frederick Go, the particular assistant to the president for funding and financial affairs.

In an earlier statement, the White Home stated that Raimondo’s mission, which involves an finish right this moment, would “improve U.S. firms’ contributions to the Philippines’ innovation economic system, connective infrastructure, clear vitality transition, crucial minerals sector, and the meals safety of its individuals.”

Raimondo’s announcement is a transparent signal that the Biden administration is looking for to improve and increase its financial ties with the Philippines, after two years which have seen a number of leaps ahead within the safety relationship between the 2 nations. Since Marcos took workplace in July 2022, his administration has expanded U.S. entry to Philippine navy amenities underneath the 2014 Enhanced Protection Cooperation Settlement, and brought half in a number of joint maritime patrols with the U.S., together with in disputed elements of the South China Sea.

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The background to this has been the rising frequency and depth of Chinese language incursions into areas of the South China Sea claimed by the Philippines. These have resulted in a sequence of harmful high-seas encounters, together with, most not too long ago, the China Coast Guard’s ramming of a Philippine Coast Guard vessel.

Yesterday, Raimondo added that Marcos has praised his nation’s shut relations with Washington throughout their assembly, and quoted him as saying “he can not think about the Philippines’ future and not using a shut bond with america.”

“I need to say right here right this moment, the sensation is mutual,” Raimondo added, “however President Biden acknowledges we are able to do extra.

Throughout her press briefing, Raimondo additionally spoke about U.S. attempts to stop China from buying superior laptop chips and manufacturing tools that could possibly be used to enhance its navy energy. She stated that the Biden administration was assessing the necessity to increase its regime of export controls.

“My job is to guard the American individuals and to be sure that our most refined know-how, together with semiconductor know-how, synthetic intelligence know-how that we have now and China doesn’t have, that they will’t entry it and use it to allow the Chinese language navy,” Raimondo stated.

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