WASHINGTON --- The United States has taken more concrete steps in showing its resolve to help the Philippines defend its territory in the South China Sea by providing military vessels and aircraft to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The military aid, worth millions of dollars, was among the agreements that the two countries entered into during the meeting between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and US President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday (early Tuesday in Manila). In a brief message before their bilateral meeting at the Oval Office, Biden acknowledged Marcos' efforts to reinvigorate the diplomatic relations between the longtime military allies, which were frozen ...Keep on reading: AFP gets ships, planes as part of defense pact with US