26 August 2019
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- Why Southeast Asian Navies will Hold Exercises with the US After the Same with China
Why Southeast Asian Navies will Hold Exercises with the US After the Same with China
Asian media reports said the US and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations will conduct their first all-included maritime exercises in September near Thailand. “It’s just diplomatic smoke signals and should not be taken beyond that, but even as a diplomatic smoke signal it has to be seriously by China,” said Assoc Prof Alan Chong at the RSIS in Singapore. Participants will probably do “low-intensity” work such as responding to mock accidents and making rescues, said Collin Koh, maritime security research fellow at NTU Singapore.
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