MANILA: The Philippines has asked the US to provide military “assistance” in resupplying and rotating Manila’s forces in the South China Sea because they face harassment from regional power China, a military spokesman said Thursday.
The request was made the previous day by Philippine Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin in a meeting with Admiral Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command, according to Colonel Restituto Padilla.
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