MANILA – This week, the Philippines and United States kicked off their largest-ever and most consequential joint Balikatan (shoulder-to-shoulder) war games featuring as many as 16,000 troops including 11,000 American servicemen. Crucially, the two allies will conduct some of their drills outside the Philippines’ 12 nautical miles “territorial sea” in the South China Sea, a […]
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