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WASHINGTON — Two senior Republican US senators have asked US President Joe Biden to provide a complete list of options developed by the Pentagon and the US State Department to help support the Philippines in recent standoffs with Beijing over Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea .Central to tensions is the disputed Ayungin Shoal , where the Philippines maintains the BRP Sierra Madre, a rusty warship manned by a small crew that it deliberately grounded in 1999 to reinforce its maritime claims.
Anything short of this risks our appearing unwilling to honor our bilateral commitments," read a July 12 letter to Biden, seen by Reuters, from Senators Roger Wicker and Jim Risch, the highest ranking Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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