Philippines, South China Sea
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The United States, Japan and the Philippines on Friday staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a Chinese military ship kept watch from a distance.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the Philippines on Friday, where he reaffirmed Washington's "ironclad" commitment to a defense treaty between the two countries.
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Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, according to AMTI.
It's Beijing's latest move to assert sovereignty over the hotly disputed atoll in the South China Sea, satellite images obtained by Reuters showed.
5don MSN
The Philippine defense chief has called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country will accept.