Seventeen foreign vessels were involved in the drills. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - The United States and China have sent warships to the multinational naval drills that began in Indonesia on Monday despite the rifts between the two powers.
The US military has stepped up its Asia-Pacific operations to counter an increasingly assertive China, which has recently staged several rounds of war drills around Taiwan. The US Navy has sent a littoral combat ship to the exercise, a US embassy spokesman in Jakarta told AFP on Sunday. Australia and Russia were also expected to send warships, according to an Indonesian military list seen by AFP.
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