{"id":13825,"date":"2023-04-03T15:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2023-04-03T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T08:45:10","slug":"us-troops-double-balikatan-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/us-troops-double-balikatan-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"US troops double to record high in Balikatan 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest Balikatan military exercises combining air, land and sea drills among US and Philippine military troops are set to take place next week, featuring 17,000 soldiers and observers from other nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the Marcos Jr administration’s watch, the US fortifies its strategic Indo-Pacific positioning in the Philippines in a continuous bid versus China’s growing strength in the region and the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The number of US troops involved in the Baliktan 2023 military exercises has doubled compared to previous years. This is because the Philippines remains strategically important for the US\u2019 geopolitical dominance in the Indo-Pacific – as a center of global trade and commerce and amid China aggression in the West Philippine Sea. But this will not necessarily benefit the Philippines as it becomes another base for US hegemony and militarism.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3185,3186,633,601,2186,635],"class_list":["post-13825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-balikatan","tag-balikatan-exercises","tag-edca","tag-us-military","tag-us-philippine-relations","tag-vfa","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 16:49:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13829,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions\/13829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}