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including live-fire exercises at sea in a first for the annual military exercises, the Armed Forces of the Philippines said Tuesday.
About two-thirds or 12,000 of the participating Balikatan troops will come from the United States, while the rest are Philippine soldiers, with 111 Australian personnel joining in smaller events and Japanese forces as observers. She stressed that it is to ensure that the Indo-Pacific “remains stable, secure and prosperous” amid China’s aggressive activities in the South China Sea.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said the Philippine government should give attention and ponder on China’s warning that the United States is dragging our country into war with the extension of four EDCA sites. “Perhaps China should look in the mirror before casting a stone,” said Hontiveros amid Chinese criticism of the EDCA deal.“I think they are the ones who are very aggressive and hostile. I am really pissed off seeing what they have been doing to our Navy, and right now recently, our Coast Guard, they’re very hostile,” Ejercito said.
Previously, Balikatan forces were just exercising the Air Force and the Army without the participation of the Navy because they were mainly on land, “so we are doing it in the water so we can exercise all our service components,” he added.
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