• 5 months ago
Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said during the 126th anniversary of the Philippine Navy in Manila on Friday, May 24, that the Philippines will press efforts to build security alliances and stage realistic combat drills with the United States, Japan and Australia in the West Philippine Sea.

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00:00 [APPLAUSE]
00:02 [INAUDIBLE]
00:05 Terming these cooperative activities
00:09 with like-minded nations as a containment or a provocation
00:14 is disinformation and evidence of paranoia
00:20 of a close political system.
00:23 The ultimate intent is to get what
00:27 they want by the threat or the use of force.
00:30 This we cannot allow to continue.
00:33 We will train more realistically.
00:35 There will be more maritime cooperative activities
00:39 between us and like-minded nations,
00:43 more training scenarios, more interoperability exercises
00:48 involving also our civilian counterparts.
00:53 [AUDIO OUT]
00:56 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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