WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will host Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for talks on the White House subsequent month because the U.S. appears to proceed to tighten relations with the Pacific nation.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned Thursday that the 2 leaders’ assembly on May 1 is anticipated to give attention to deepening financial cooperation, local weather change, human rights, efforts to advertise a free and open Indo-Pacific area and extra.

The go to comes after the Philippines introduced earlier this 12 months that it could enable U.S. forces to broaden their footprint within the Southeast Asian nation. It was one in every of a collection of strikes by the administration aimed strengthening an arc of army alliances within the Indo-Pacific to raised counter China, together with in any future confrontation over Taiwan.

Biden and Marcos had their first face-to-face assembly in September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

Marcos, the son and namesake of the nation’s former dictator, took workplace final June.

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