The new Philippine Coast Guard station in Itbayat, Batanes will improve monitoring of the Luzon Strait, a vital international waterway south of Taiwan
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, boosting its capacity to monitor an area where China has built up its military presence, National Security Adviser Eduardo Año said on Friday, May 24. Año said the area around the town of Itbayat in the Philippines’ Batanes islands was the scene of a military build-up in 2022 after China had responded to “political developments” between Taiwan and the US, the island’s key foreign backer.The strait, traversed by multiple cable systems, is a transit zone for vessels moving between the Philippine Sea and the contested South China Sea.
Itbayat was one of the venues of joint military exercises by the Philippines and the US from April 22 to May 10 in which more than 16,000 troops from both sides participated.
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