Plans naval exercises with India and Japan in Philippine Sea

Mar 05, 2016, 23:45
Plans naval exercises with India and Japan in Philippine Sea

Harris announced that the Exercise Malabar 2016 with India will once again include Japan, and that the three countries' naval drills will take place in the northern Philippine Sea, which is close to the South China sea.

Fu Ying said the USA was massively increasing the levels of its military in the region and American patrols near Chinese-held islands in the South China Sea were raising tensions.

An editorial late-February in China's English-language daily newspaper, Global Times, denounced USA efforts it said were aimed at "drawing countries outside the region, such as India, Japan, South Korea and Australia" into disputes there.

In New Delhi, U.S. Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris Jr. expressed his admiration for India's peaceful approach to conflict resolution but cited how "some countries seek to bully smaller nations", without naming China.

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"On the security front", the admiral said, "India is beginning to exert its leadership in the Indo-Asia-Pacific".

But Indian strategic affairs analyst Dr. Subhash Kapila of the South Asia Analysis Group said it was in India's national interests to cooperate with the USA and other regional navies "to checkmate China's military adventurism and brinkmanship in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean". Japan has already begun building ten 40-meter coast guard vessels, regarded as civilian equipment, from official development assistance for the Philippines, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said past year he would "proactively consider" granting a request from the Philippines for larger patrol vessels.

Last December, Carter's Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar paid a visit to Washington and Hawaii during which the two militaries agreed on several joint naval exercises this year.

Although the Pentagon only made it public yesterday, the US Navy, acting under Harris's command, has deployed an aircraft-carrier led strike force in the South China Sea since last Tuesday.

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American officials have found a strategic partnership with India attractive, especially in guarding the Indian Ocean from the negative fallouts of China's rapid rise.

The senator, also head of the Senate foreign relations committee and the legislative oversight committee on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), rallied her colleagues in January to assert that any treaty, including the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the United States, is void without Senate concurrence.

"If elected, I will negotiate with China together with other Asian countries", she stressed. A number of factors are forcing India's hand. It has repeatedly threatened Pakistan with military action and it assisted the United States in a "regime change" operation in Sri Lanka so as to bring to power a government that has distanced Colombo from Beijing.

Talking about India hosting Japan and Australia for its first-ever trilateral dialogue in New Delhi previous year, Harris said some of the topics discussed were maritime security, including freedom of navigation patrols, and tri-lateral cooperation in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Under President Xi Jinping, China has reclaimed more than 3,000 acres of land on seven features in the Spratlys in the past two years, adding airstrips, lighthouses and port facilities to better project influence over the waterway.

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