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For the protection of such New Territories after the Philippines was ceded to the US by Spain and until all postwar rebellion had been quelled and stable new government had been formed in a democratic manner. Without a clear move like that, these new lands were easy pickings for other nations to make a claim on. The US was saying to the World at large, Back Off. The Philippines is under US Protection.

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