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MANILA, Philippines – The US and Japan will help the Philippines link the ports in Subic, Manila, and Batangas and build an industrial area free of slow traffic and powered by renewable energy, positioned to rival the capital in economic output. The steering committee tasked to build the Luzon Economic Corridor met in Manila on Monday, May 22, in the inaugural Indo-Pacific Business Forum. The committee is comprised of: Frederick Go, Philippine Senior Advisor for Investment and Economic Affairs Amos Hochstein, US Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment Helaina Matza, US Acting Special Coordinator for Partnership for Global Infrastructure Investment Ishizuki Hideo, Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director-General for International Cooperation The Luzon Economic Corridor is a pet project of the G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGI), which is a collaborative effort of G7-member nations to fund infrastructure projects in developing nations.

The Luzon Economic Corridor is the first in the Indo-Pacific region. Details of what projects will comprise the corridor are still under discussion, but the Philippines has already pitched the freight railway that will link Subic Bay, Clark, Manila, and Batangas. Recall that China was supposed to fund the P51-billion Subic railway, but it was scrapped amid political tensions between the Philippines and Beijing.



What’s an ‘economic corridor’ anyway? Economic corridors are more than infrastructu.

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