#Philippines: #PRC: Back to Subic Bay. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GordonGChang, Gates
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
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#Philippines: #PRC: Back to Subic Bay. James Fanell, government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/30/philippines-bases-china-taiwan/
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| 0:47.6 | in the Washington Post in these last days. US military poised to secure new access to |
| 0:53.8 | key Philippine bases. And we call upon our colleague who can inform us about this. This is James |
| 1:02.1 | Finell, who's a government fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy. But in his day |
| 1:07.2 | job for many decades, US Navy captain now retired, served as director of intelligence and |
| 1:13.4 | information operations of the US Pacific Fleet. |
| 1:16.8 | Jim, what is new here? The Philippines, as I recall in my 20th century history, the |
| 1:22.4 | US left its permanent bases there. Are we going back and why now? Good evening to you, Jim. |
| 1:28.4 | Good evening, John and Gordon. This is a good signal that we have this upcoming announcement |
| 1:37.1 | with Secretary Defense Austin's visit to the Philippines in the region right now. And |
| 1:42.3 | from what everything that we're reading and hearing is that we're going to have an extension |
| 1:46.8 | or expansion of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Act that was passed by the two countries in |
| 1:53.1 | 2014, which allowed the United States to basically return military presence to the Philippines |
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