The Philippine Navy accused a Chinese coast guard ship on Dec 4 of sideswiping one of its resupply boats. - PHOTO: AFP
MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines held maritime drills with the United States and Japan inside its exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, its military said on Friday evening, two days after a maritime confrontation with Beijing around a disputed shoal.
The drills, which brought together a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft, Philippine Navy ship BRP Andres Bonifacio and a C-90 small plane, and Japan's Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare, are the Philippines' latest round of exercises with allies this year in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
