Like last year, the highlight of Balikatan 2024 will be the sinking of a decommissioned vessel
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That by early May 2024, joint forces of the Philippines and the United States will be sinking a decommissioned China-made Philippine oil tanker is not a “ludicrous performance” or a show of “provocative intent” – it’s simply a coincidence, the Navy said. The sinking exercise is among the last and biggest of the three-week-long war games and will see the militaries and assets of the two treaty-allies working together to sink the oil tanker.
, would be the subject of the Balikatan drill. The choice has ruffled feathers in Beijing, with state-runcalling it, in an editorial, a “ludicrous performance by Manila” that supposedly “ clear provocative intent.”, which was once a Philippine National Oil Company vessel, had long been scheduled to be the star of a sinking activity – way back July 2023, before tensions between China and the Philippines increased in the West Philippine Sea.
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