The United States and the Philippines – along with allied nations like Japan, Australia, France, New Zealand, and Canada – launched a series of large-scale combat exercises on Monday.
The joint drills were conducted amid threats of retaliation from China, which has long been working on seizing disputed islands from the Philippines by force.
Some of those mock battles cover the disputed waters of the South China Sea and the island of Taiwan, which angered the Chinese government. Beijing wants to reserve the option of force to seize the entire South China Sea region, even though its expansive claims were long ago rejected by international…
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