Amador, Julio2019-03-012019-03-012019-02-06http://hdl.handle.net/10125/61749For more about the East-West Center, see <a href="http://www.eastwestcenter.org/">http://www.eastwestcenter.org/</a>Julio Amador, former Fulbright ASEAN Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that "Despite being a former colony, commonwealth, and current ally of the United States, the Philippines has not received any concrete assurances from Washington on its territorial claims in the South China Sea."2 p.en-USReport