{"id":70494,"date":"2025-03-28T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/pete-hegseth-dogged-by-scandal-at-home-pledges-us-support-for-manila-against-china"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:05:56","slug":"pete-hegseth-dogged-by-scandal-at-home-pledges-us-support-for-manila-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70494","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth, dogged by scandal at home, pledges US support for Manila against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary\u2019s Philippines visit, aimed at bolstering ties in Asia-Pacific, comes amid rising tensions with Beijing and calls for his resignation<\/p>\n<p>The US defence secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, has met with the Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos, in Manila saying the two countries must stand \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d in the face of the threat represented by China.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth\u2019s meeting at the presidential palace comes as he opens a tour of Pacific allies that risks being overshadowed by a mounting scandal over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/24\/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat\">leaked plans for military strikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/28\/pete-hegseth-dogged-by-scandal-at-home-pledges-us-support-for-manila-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary\u2019s Philippines visit, aimed at bolstering ties in Asia-Pacific, comes amid rising tensions with Beijing and calls for his resignationThe US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has met with the Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos, in Ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,535,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494\/revisions\/70495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}