Following a lot of Chinese military activity, aggression near Taiwan, threats against America, Japan and many other countries, the US and The Philippines see through China.
Strengthening their ties all the time per:
Impressive.
The Philippines were always a tremendous country and clearly see through the CCP like us all.
Not forgetting the Muslims being held in Chinese concentration camps and the origin of one of the worst pandemics in history beginning in Wuhan.
All being used by China as part of wars to undermine sovereign countries to spread communism and to remove the US dollar which would cause a global recession on a level never seen before.