April 7, 2016

"Despite being of a scale similar to last year's, the ongoing 'shoulder-to-shoulder' military exercises between the United States and the Philippines are more provocative because of the addition of an islands-seizing exercise.

Such military exercises are one of the ways in which the US is militarizing the South China Sea. The military drills organized by the US unilaterally or together with its allies in the South China Sea in recent years have increasingly presented a provocative posture because of their shortened distance to sensitive areas in the sea. The exercise in which Philippine troops recapture islands occupied by 'foreign troops' also makes the joint drill more targeted."

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