'This activity was part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen regional and international cooperation towards realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific,' the Armed Forces of the Philippines says
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines and Japan held their first joint military exercises in the South China Sea on Friday, August 2, the Philippine armed forces said, in the latest collaboration between countries that have pushed back against China’s regional assertiveness. “This activity was part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen regional and international cooperation towards realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific,” the Armed Forces of the Philippines said in a statement.allowing deployment of forces on each other’s soil.
Japan, which announced last year its biggest military build-up since World War Two in a step away from post-war pacifism, does not have any claims to the busy waterway.
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