'Good for now' : Four American lawmakers see no need to amend US-PHL defense treaty amid China's aggression

WHILE the United States government expressed its solid support for the Philippines during the August 5 blocking and water-cannoning incident in Ayungin Shoal and even invoked the possible use of the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) should things go worse, some of its legislators seemed to think that the treaty…

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