Philippines: Section 1 - Data

摘要

1. Philippines bumps up year-on-year defense budget for 2020 by just 4.3 percent after growing it nominally by more than 50 percent over the previous three fiscal years combined 2. Philippine Navy commissions first two anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Leonardo AW-159 Wildcat helicopters into service on June 17, 2019 3. Following assurances from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a visit to Manila, the Philippines tables a planned review of its military alliance with Washington involving a mutual defense treaty dating to 1951.