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The Armed Forces of the Philippines hopes to establish a military exercise with the Japan Self-Defense Forces that is on par with the scale of the Balikatan exercises the country has with the US.
“This is our hope and forward looking, this is what we envision,” Padilla said in a press briefing at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City when asked whether the new defense pact would pave the way for a bilateral exercise as big as Balikatan with their Japanese counterpart. Balikatan is an annual military exercise between the Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust and cooperation between the two forces.
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