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The The Foreign and Defense ministers of the Philippines and Japan on Monday called out China's "dangerous and escalatory actions" in the South China Sea as both countries signed a key defense accord allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills in the country.The Reciprocal Access Agreement with Manila will be Japan's third defense accord after those with the United Kingdom and Australia.
Manila demanded China to pay P60 million in damages for seizing two Philippine boats and several rifles from the Filipino servicemen, who conducted a resupply operation at the Second Thomas Shoal, where a World War II-era vessel had been intentionally grounded by the Philippine government in 1998 to serve as a military outpost in the area being claimed by Beijing as its own.
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