{"id":9408,"date":"2011-06-24T03:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:06:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-24T03:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:06:29","slug":"US-heads-to-South-China-Sea-to-help-Philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9408","title":{"rendered":"US heads to South China Sea to help Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States and the Philippines will hold joint naval exercises next week<\/strong> in waters close to disputed areas of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleven days of manuvers will start Tuesday<\/strong>, after a pledge by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday <strong>that Washington was ready to provide hardware to the Filipino military amid rising tension at sea with China<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The category_ided missile destroyers <strong>USS Chung-Hoon and USS Howard and the diving and salvage ship USNS Safeguard will arrive Tuesday<\/strong> at the western Philippine island of Palawan, a joint statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US and Philippine navies have a long history of working together, and exercises like (these) provide a great venue for us to hone our skills and increase our inter-operability,&#8221; the US commander Captain David Welch said.<\/p>\n<p>The exercises will be held in the Palawan area, the joint naval statement said, without specifying where.<\/p>\n<p>Palawan&#8217;s west coast faces the South China Sea, where tensions over the resource-rich area have been escalating, with <strong>the Philippines and Vietnam alarmed at what they say are increasingly aggressive actions by Beijing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China<\/strong>, the <strong>Philippines<\/strong> and <strong>Vietnam<\/strong>, along with <strong>Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan<\/strong>, lay claim to all or parts of the Spratlys, a South China Sea island chain close to Palawan.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the drills aim to hone maritime security capabilities 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