YourVoice.Now Summary
A Senate statement marking 80 years of U.S.-Philippines ties and condemning China's South China Sea actions.
The details
No law or program changes. Senators would mark three dates with the Philippines. Those are 80 years of ties and 75 years of the defense treaty. The third is 10 years since a world panel threw out China's claim to most of the South China Sea. The text condemns China for water cannons, ramming, and a floating barrier at Scarborough Shoal. It restates that the treaty covers armed attacks on Philippine ships, planes, and troops anywhere in that sea. It counts more than four million Filipino Americans in this country.
Congressional Summary
This resolution recognizes the 80th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Philippines and the 75th anniversary of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippines. The resolution also condemns China's refusal to accept the result of an arbitration initiated by the Philippines under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea related to China's actions in the South China Sea.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-06-08
- Date Added
- 2026-08-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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