RP stages Spratlys war games with Malaysia, US
By Mario J. Mallari 03/10/2011The Philippines and Malaysia will be holding joint exercises in the South China Sea next week amid the “tension” brought about by last week’s harassment of a Philippine exploration vessel by two Chinese patrol boats at the disputed Spratly group of islands in Palawan.
There is also an exercise slated between the RP and United States military 11 days after the MalPhi Laut, military officials said.
Navy spokesman Capt. Giovanni Carlo Bacordo, however, maintained that the March 16 to 26 MalPhi Laut, the annual bilateral naval exercise between the two navies, is not a response to the March 2 incident at the Reed Bank on the disputed Spratlys islands.
“It has nothing to do at all because this was planned six months before,” he said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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