President Joe Biden has offered "ironclad" U.S. military support for the Philippines in the face of Chinese naval harassment in the South China Sea waters that fall within Manila's exclusive economic zone but are also claimed by Beijing as its historic territory. Biden's remarks came ahead of an unprecedented trilateral summit at the White House with counterparts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose nations are longstanding U.S. treaty allies.
