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The Philippines, United States, Japan and Australia have cited the aggressive actions of China in the West Philippine Sea as added motivation for them to line up more quadrilateral maritime exercises to assert a rules-based order in the international waters.
The meeting of the defense chiefs from the four countries followed the recently held Maritime Cooperative Activity among them, where they strengthened the interoperability of their defense and armed forces doctrines, tactics, techniques, and procedures. “They reiterated serious concern over the PRC’s repeated obstruction of Philippine vessels’ exercise of high seas freedom of navigation and the disruption of supply lines to Second Thomas Shoal, which constitute dangerous and destabilizing conduct,” the readout stated.
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