Which reason shows best why the US would keep the Philippines as a territory causing the Philippine-American War?

Probably the biggest reason that the Philippines is strategically placed right in the Pacific region where Japan, Korea, China, Australia and other nations are. At the turn of the 20th century this would be a key asset of the United States in keep military forces in that region of the world in case any trouble were to break out

The US feared another nation would take it over if they didn’t keep it under US control