(14 Aug 2025)
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Manila, Philippines – 14 August 2025
1. Wide of 2025 Philippine Business Mission opening
2. Philippine Ambassador to the U.S., Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary, Maria Lazaro, Regional Managing director of US-ASEAN business council, Theodore Osius, and US Ambassador to the Philippines, MaryKay Carlson
3. Ambassador Romualdez speaking beside Secretary Lazaro
4. TV monitor showing sign of 2025 Philippine Business Mission
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S.:
“When U.S. companies invest here, in the Philippines it’s not just about returns on capital but it’s about returns on our alliance. A stronger Philippine economy means a more capable and reliable defense partner for the United States.”
6. Participants listening to speech
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S.:
“At a time when America is diversifying supply chains and rethinking global strategy, we are a natural choice, a strategic necessity.”
8. U.S. company representatives
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S.:
“I ask you to carry the same message that we carry all the time to the Trump administration: `Every U.S. dollar invested in the Philippines strengthens America position in the Indo-Pacific.’"
10. Ambassador Carlson talking to reporters
11. SOUNDBITE (English) MaryKay Carlson, US Ambassador to the Philippines:
“Freedom of navigation is essential for the trillions of dollars worth of commerce that passes through these waters, Its not only the Coast guard or Navy or the military or security It’s about commerce. It’s about lives and livelihoods.”
12. Wide of Ambassador Carlson with reporters
STORYLINE:
The United States is discussing the possible deployment of more missile launchers to the Philippines to strengthen deterrence against aggression in the disputed South China Sea and other Asian security hotspots, but no final decision has been reached by both sides, Manila’s ambassador to Washington said Thursday.
The U.S. military delivered a mid-range missile system called the Typhon, a land-based weapon that can fire the Standard Missile-6 and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, to the northern Philippines as part of joint combat exercises in April last year.
That was followed by the U.S. military transporting an anti-ship missile launcher in April this year to the northernmost Philippine province of Batanes, just a sea border away from Taiwan.
Beijing strongly protested the installation of the U.S. missile systems in the northern Philippines, saying these were aimed at containing China’s rise and warning that these would threaten regional stability.
China has asked the Philippines to withdraw the missile launchers from its territory, but officials led by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had rejected the demand.
Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez said without elaborating that the possible deployment by the U.S. of more Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System or NMESIS missile launchers “was being discussed for consideration by both sides.”
The anti-ship missile launchers could be installed along Philippine coastal regions facing the South China Sea and outlying regions where deterrence against aggression needed to be reinforced, he said.
The U.S. was not gearing up for war, Hegseth said then but underscored that peace would be won “through strength.”
China claims virtually the entire South China Sea, a major security and global trade route.
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