US-Philippine joint military exercise yesterday kicked off
July 2, Hong Kong "The Sun" reports on an unprecedented scale, "Pacific Rim" joint military exercise has just unveiled the Philippines announced that the US-Philippine military exercises commence. Wave after wave of military exercises, a wide variety of names, are in fact the U.S. manipulation, the sole purpose of deterrence and containment of China.
 
The Philippine Star newspaper Web site reported on July 2, hundreds of Filipino and American sailors will drill in mine clearance and night infiltration in the joint exercises of this year's "readiness and training projects. The exercises will test the United States and Australia in the Mindanao Sea to spend millions of Jiang Yuan to build the southern coast of observation projects.
 
The East Mindanao Command commander of the armed forces Lieutenant General Jorge Segovia, and Navy Commander of the East Mindanao, Philip said Kaka Yang, maritime and Coast Guard joint exercise this year, including anti-mine means and night infiltration action Navy new technologies, such exercises are held for the first time in the Mindanao Sea.
 
Segovia officially announced the start of the exercise, the effectiveness of the joint maritime and coastal operations will also test the southern coastal observing systems. The system is a sea-and land-based real-time monitoring system, responsible for monitoring all maritime activities in the southern Philippines a "backdoor".
 
Harry Thomas, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, attended the opening ceremony of this nine-day exercise. He said the U.S. sailors and Coast Guardsmen will be on the high seas with their Philippine colleagues to enhance their cooperative engagement capability.
 
Thomas said, has a history of decades of Philippine-US alliance remains strong. He also reiterated the U.S. government's position that the South China Sea territorial disputes must be resolved peacefully.
 
The exercises commander Maj. Gen. Thomas Carney said that the maritime exercise has nothing to do with any kind of territorial disputes in the South China Sea. He said: "The (joint) exercises without any provocation. Reason why we are here is because the Philippines is a signatory of allies."
 
Website on July 2 of the Philippine Star newspaper reported that the Philippine armed forces spokesman Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos said the armed forces will support and assist the Philippine Coast Guard to ensure that you return the Scarborough Shoal ( Huangyan Island - Benwang Note) safety of fishermen.
 
Burgos said: "In coordination with relevant government agencies, we will continue to spare no effort to seek all necessary means, always ensure the safety of our citizens, to ensure that they are able to exercise their freedom, including the right of navigation within the scope of China's sovereign territory . "
 
 
Scarborough Shoal fishing ban issued by the Philippine government will be canceled on July 15. However, the Office of the President has not yet decided whether to send the official boat to return to the waters.
When asked to cancel the fishing ban will lead to re-send official boat, Burgos said the Coast Guard will be directly involved in the matter, rather than military.
 
A security official says the abolition of the fishing ban may pave the way for the Philippine official boat to return to this in the disputed region. The official said, allowing the fishermen engaged in fishing activities in the region on the need for security forces to ensure their safety.
 
More groundless accusations of China "infringement"
 
Macao Daily News, July 2 article China National Offshore Oil Corporation has announced the opening nine offshore blocks for exploration and development of cooperation with foreign companies in the South China Sea.
A Vietnam is actually a strong reaction from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Oil Company has protest, appeal to foreign oil companies not in the South China Sea "Tanghun Shui.
 
Since the sixties and seventies of the last century, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia and other countries, together with Western oil companies to strengthen the development and use of the South China Sea, the development from the offshore continental shelf to the deep advancing China's territorial waters and islands continue to be eroded, a large number of oil and gas resources have been plundered.
The five countries, the Vietnamese and Chinese interests compete in the South China Sea is the most intense.



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