The Philippines and Vietnam will deepen military cooperation with an agreement to be signed this year, their defence ministers announced August 30, as both countries seek to counter Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. Welcoming his Vietnamese counterpart to Manila, Filipino defence secretary Gilberto Teodoro acknowledged the two Southeast Asian nations had “bilateral...
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