{"id":2373,"date":"2024-04-11T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2024-04-11T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T22:44:03","slug":"biden-marcos-announce-infrastructure-plans-to-counter-chinese-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Marcos announce infrastructure plans to counter Chinese projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.voanews.com\/01000000-0aff-0242-ca0d-08dc5a742406_cx4_cy3_cw58_w800_h450.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<span class=\"dateline\">washington \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Months after Manila withdrew from China&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, Washington announced a set of infrastructure projects in the Philippines, the first under an initiative to accelerate investments in partner countries in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure projects, known as PGI Luzon corridor, were announced by U.S. President Joe Biden as he hosted Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the White House on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Marcos is seen as much closer to Washington than his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte. Last year, he skipped a BRI summit in Beijing that marked the 10th anniversary of China\u2019s $1 trillion international infrastructure-building program.<\/p>\n<p>PGI is an initialism for Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, an initiative that offers grants, federal financing and private sector investment to partner countries. It was launched in 2021 by the U.S. and G7 partners under the title \u201cBuild Back Better World\u201d and billed as an alternative to China\u2019s BRI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PGI Luzon corridor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PGI Luzon corridor is the first project of its kind in the Indo-Pacific and will \u201cconnect Subic Bay, Clark, Manila and Batangas in the Philippines to accelerate coordinated investments in high-impact infrastructure projects, including ports, rail, clean energy, semiconductors, supply chains and other forms of connectivity in the Philippines,\u201d a senior administration official said during a briefing on Wednesday. The official asked for anonymity in speaking to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The official did not provide more details on the project but noted \u201cit will take some time\u201d to secure investments. She highlighted a recent U.S. trade and investment mission to the Philippines that announced \u201cmore than $1 billion\u201d in combined investments to promote the Philippines\u2019 innovation economy, clean energy transition and supply chain resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Ray, senior researcher with the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, said that PGI Luzon corridor could lead to \u201chealthy competition among major sources of lending and investment globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those lending sources now recognize that developing countries \u201cneed support in overcoming hard infrastructure bottlenecks for industrialization,&#8221; she told VOA.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Japan will also provide funding for technology in the Philippines that will improve wireless communication throughout the region, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the official said, the Development Finance Corporation, a U.S. development bank that partners with the private sector, will open its first regional office in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>If the U.S. can sustain its focus and investments, PGI will be quite beneficial to the Philippines, said Derek Grossman, a senior analyst at the Rand Corporation, an American global policy research group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, we have seen numerous funding battles to get funds passed through Congress on these types of programs,\u201d he told VOA. \u201cAnd thus, this essential part is hardly guaranteed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manila out of BRI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As ties with Beijing become increasingly strained over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, Manila announced in November that it has given up on Chinese funding for three major transportation projects, expressing confidence in securing financial backing elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Chinese investment in the Philippines does not appear to be waning, Ray said, citing Chinese firm Yadea\u2019s 2023 announcement of a $1 billion investment in e-motorcycle manufacturing, the second-largest investment in the Philippines for the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/11\/16\/fact-sheet-partnership-for-global-infrastructure-and-investment-pgi-indo-pacific-economic-framework-for-prosperity-ipef-investor-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it has been able to mobilize billions of dollars of U.S. private sector investments in the Indo-Pacific, including from Vena Energy, an energy company developing 2.4GW of renewable energy projects in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/biden-marcos-announce-infrastructure-plans-to-counter-chinese-projects\/7566530.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>washington \u2014\u00a0 Months after Manila withdrew from China&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, 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