PHL strengthens defense ties with US,Japan amid sea border row with China

A US Navy plane flies over BRP Sierra Madre, right, and a Chinese coast guard ship at the Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, at the South China Sea on Tuesday, August 22, 2023. As a US Navy plane circled overhead, two Philippine navy-manned boats managed to breach a Chinese coast guard blockade in a dangerous confrontation in the disputed South China Sea and succeeded in delivering food and other supplies to Filipino forces guarding a contested shoal on board BRP Sierra Madre.

“Stronger” facilities will be built in Philippine military sites where the US was given access, Armed Forces chief Romeo Brawner Jr. said in a briefing on Thursday. Manila is also working to finalize a visiting forces deal with Tokyo, he said. Washington early this year won access to four more sites under the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, which initially covered five Philippine military bases. The new sites are located near Taiwan and the South China Sea, where Beijing and Manila are embroiled in an increasingly tense territorial dispute.

Meanwhile, the Philippine military has halted sending personnel to China for trainings after a Chinese ship in August fired a water canon on a Philippine vessel in the SCS, Brawner said.

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