China will join forces with Malaysia and Thailand for a naval exercise in the Strait of Malacca amid rising tensions over the disputed South China Sea.
China will send three destroyers and frigates, two shipborne helicopters, three Il-76 transport aircraft and a total of 692 servicemen to the nine-day exercise named Peace and Friendship 2018.
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