Cebu China put it performed sky and sea drills in the South China Sea on Tuesday simply because it bets a more and more pushy boast that they just about the whole of the sea despite contend promises by neighbor.
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At the same time, AFP spokesman Colonel Restituto Padilla said they welcome the Supreme Court order to explain the questioned military drills it conducted with Japan recently because it would allow government, through the Department of National Defense, “to clarify certain activities we conduct with other countries”.
“We’re not threatened at all because it’s in worldwide waters…”
“All sorts of information technology tactics”, were used during the training, which also required dozens of aircraft and China’s nuclear force, China Military Online reported.
China is likely to deploy its newly designed WB-1 microwave directed energy weapon against Philippine and Vietnamese vessels in the contested South China Sea, according to the state run Reference News on July 27.
“It’s the right of any sovereign nation to conduct any kind of exercises that they think are relevant to their own security interest”, he added.
Reports from the Zhuhai Airshow held in southern China’s Guangdong province last year indicated that Poly was developing the WB-1 for naval applications.
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“We have been very transparent whenever we have exercises we tried to invite observers… to say and indicate that what we are doing is aboveboard and that we are not threatening anyone”. Three of those seven artificial islands are within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
