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Santa Ana is one of nine mostly rural areas where rotating batches of U.S. forces could encamp indefinitely.
Residents say the Philippines needs the Americans as a crucial counterweight to China .
The remote town of Santa Ana caught in the geo-political rivalry between Washington and Beijing .
It lies across a sea border from Taiwan , the self-governing island China regards as a renegade province.
The agreement allows rotating batches of U.S. forces to stay rent-free at the military sites.
It allows them to store their defense equipment — except nuclear weapons — there.
The EDCA accord was signed in 2014 and has been automatically extended with both sides in agreement.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. agreed to add four more EDCA sites last year .
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