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PLA staged two military dirlls in South China Sea

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China staged maritime defense exercises in the South China Sea, just four days after Vietnam conducted live-fire drills in the same disputed waters, the latest development in an escalating confrontation between Beijing and two of its Southeast Asian neighbors.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III warned China, in an interview with the Associated Press, not to intrude into waters claimed by Manila, saying his country wouldn't be bullied by Beijing in the dispute centered on the potentially oil-rich Spratly Islands.

It also came a day after state media reported that Beijing had dispatched one of its biggest civilian maritime patrol ships—the Haixun 31— on Wednesday to patrol the South China Sea, passing near the Spratlys, while making its way to Singapore on a scheduled visit.

China plans to expand its maritime surveillance force—which consists of 9,000 personnel, nine aircraft, and more than 260 vessels—to 15,000 personnel, at least 16 planes and more than 520 vessels by 2020, the English-language China Daily reported Friday.

Tensions over the multiple territorial disputes in the South China Sea escalated last year after China appeared to be taking a more assertive public stance on the issue, prompting Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations to shore up ties with the U.S., which angered Beijing by declaring that it had a "national interest" in the matter.

China has tried to ease regional concerns about its naval modernization and territorial ambitions, but those efforts have been overshadowed in the past few weeks by increasingly testy exchanges with Vietnam and the Philippines over alleged intrusions into each others' waters.

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China's official People's Daily newspaper said Friday that maritime defense forces recently staged three days and nights of exercises in the South China Sea, without specifying exactly when or where.

The drills involved a total of 14 patrol boats, landing craft and submarine hunting boats, along with two military aircraft, according to the newspaper, which said the aim was to refine antisubmarine, resupply and island defense capabilities.

In addition, according to PLA Daily, on the afternoon of June 6, downpour overwhelmed a sea area of the South China Sea where amphibious armored vehicles drove out of a landing ship one by one and ferried across the sea in formation to assault a beachhead, which implied that the amphibious combat vehicle formation of a marine brigade of the South China Sea Fleet under the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army had successfully implemented the vehicle transshipment of more than 1,000 li on the sea, and also symbolized that the “floating loading/unloading” hard nut of the amphibious armored vehicle under complicated conditions that set hurdle to troops’ combat effectiveness for a long time was successfully cracked.

In the past, affected by a series of factors like grouping and formation, route and plan, and weather and ocean conditions, the troops had to halt the “floating loading/unloading” drill, particularly under extreme weather or in unfamiliar waters.

Since the maritime drill started this year, the brigade took its troops to unfamiliar sea waters to conduct coordinated training with a landing ship, and explored favorable methods for loading and unloading armored combat vehicles under different complicated conditions by means of exercising grouping and formation, coordination and cooperation.

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Vietnam conducted its live-fire naval drills in the South China Sea on Monday after accusing Chinese boats of disrupting oil and gas exploration in its territorial waters. Vietnam has also angered Beijing by suggesting that other countries, including the U.S., could help to resolve the territorial disputes, which China wants to handle bilaterally.

President Aquino of the Philippines told the Associated Press Friday his government has completed an oil exploration around Reed Bank, one of the Spratly Islands, and that the prospects were "very good."

The Chinese ambassador in Manila said last week that Beijing had not started to drill for oil in the area yet and warned others to stop any oil exploration there without permission from China. (WSJ/PLA Daily)

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