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About 200 soldiers took turns defending the shores of the coastal city of Laoag in Ilocos province, launching Javelin missiles and firing howitzers. - PHOTO: REUTERS
US troops massed at a strip of sand dunes on Luzon island's northwest coast -- around 400 kilometres south of Taiwan -- let loose more than 50 live 155mm howitzer rounds at floating targets about five kilometres off the coast, AFP journalists saw. "Because of the regional problems that we have... we have to already practise and orient ourselves in our own land in these parts," he added.
Just last week, Manila said the China Coast Guard damaged a Philippine Coast Guard ship and another government vessel in water cannon attacks around the disputed China-controlled Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on April 30. The ministers"discussed opportunities to further advance defence cooperation" and to"work together to support states exercising their rights and freedoms in the South China Sea".
The confrontations between the Philippines and China comes as tensions have ratcheted up between Beijing and Taipei, which is about to inaugurate a new president regarded by China as a dangerous separatist.
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