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THE Philippines said Friday it was establishing a coast guard station on the largest island it holds in the disputed South China Sea, to improve monitoring of Chinese vessels asserting Beijing s claims in the waters.
As the “shoulder to shoulder” Balikatan exercises grow more complex in scale, China will take even greater interest in the evolving Philippine-US alliance, says the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies’ Collin Koh.
CHINA did not only sustain but even stepped up its patrols in the South China Sea last year, including in the waters of the two features owned or claimed by the Philippines, but which it is also disputing. Beijing’s maritime patrols in the regional waters, nearly all of which China…