Indo-Pacific Command said a Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft flew directly in front of a U.S. The Chinese vessel overtook the American ship and veered across its bow at a distance of 150 yards (about 140 meters) in an “unsafe manner,” it said. guided-missile destroyer and a Canadian frigate were intercepted by a Chinese warship in the Taiwan Strait. Pacific Command said over the weekend that a U.S. security deployments in Asia target Beijing’s interests and undermine regional stability. Philippine officials say such joint exercises with U.S. says freedom of navigation and overflight and the peaceful resolution of disputes in the busy waterway are in its national interest. Washington lays no claims to the strategic South China Sea, where China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysian, Taiwan and Brunei have been locked in tense territorial stand-offs for decades. The Biden administration has been strengthening an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific to better counter China, including in the South China Sea and in any future confrontation over Taiwan, the self-governing island which Beijing regards as a Chinese province. “All these exercises that we do will help us help each other in possible scenarios in the future.” “We are not just all display,” Philippine coast guard deputy spokesperson John Ybanez said. and Japanese coast guard ships helped rescue crew members who jumped off the target vessel during the mock assault. Shots rang out as heavily armed coast guard personnel rapidly boarded the vessel from a speedboat and herded the crew members toward the stern. Witnessed by journalists onboard a Philippine coast guard patrol boat, the BRP Cabra, the drills focused on a scenario involving the interdiction and boarding of a vessel suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction off the Bataan Peninsula, Philippine coast guard spokesperson Commodore Armand Balilo said. ABOARD BRP CABRA, Philippines (AP) - U.S., Japanese and Philippine coast guard ships staged law enforcement drills in waters near the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday as Washington presses efforts to reinforce alliances in Asia amid an increasingly tense rivalry with China.
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