MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Enhanced Defense Cooperative Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States is well underway. It’s basic premise is that America will defend the Philippines if the latter is attacked. In return, the U.S. has been granted access to nine Philippine sites to use as military bases.

But our reliable sources tell us that President Bongbong Marcos may soon sign EDCA 2, this time with an alliance of European countries. This, after European countries expressed the importance of countering China’s rising military activity in Taiwan and the South China Sea. And what better place to do that than in the Philippines?

Truly, Marcos lives up to his promise that the Philippines will be friend to all, enemy to none.