Malacanang Palace has not announced any US trip for the Philippine president, but said he would be holding talks with Blinken on Tuesday.
Blinken’s office also confirmed he would meet Marcos Jnr and his counterpart, Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, to discuss broadening cooperation on a range of issues, including regional peace, human rights, economic prosperity, semiconductors and the digital economy.
Earlier this month, Department of National Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said his department and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had pivoted from counter-insurgency…
