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The combat aircraft of the United States and the Philippines organized a patrol and training set on Tuesday by a disputed South China Sheal where Chinese combat jets Socer Bengles last year to remove a Filipino plane, said Filipino officials.

The joint patrol and air interaction exercises on the Scarborough Scarborough Scarough Outside the northwestern Philippines were the first for the allies of the treaty for a long time since President Donald Trump took office again.

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Two B-1 aircraft aircraft of the US Air Force of the Philippine Air Force, Maria Consuelo Castillo, at a press conference. It was not known immediately if the joint patrol found some challenge of the Chinese forces that protect the Scarborough Shoal.

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“The exercises focused on improving operational coordination, improving the awareness of air domain and reinforcing the employment capacities of agile combat between the two air forces,” said the Philippines Air Force.

On Tuesday, the Theater command of the southern Chinese army In this, their units would maintain a “high degree of alert, they would resolutely defend the territorial sovereignty of China and the maritime rights and interests, and would control any military activity that interrupts the southern China Sea,” claiming that the Philippines participated in joint patrols organized by Other foreign countries “Soca La Paz and stability in the South China Sea,” according to Reuters.

The Philippines Navy said at a press conference on Tuesday that it was “closely monitoring” three Chinese Navy vessels within Manila maritime areas, including a Jiangkai class guided missile frigate.

“The presence of the Popular Liberation Army of the Aphine reflects the total contempt of the People’s Republic of China for international law and undermine peace and stability in the region,” said Marine spokesman Filipina, John Percie Alcos ,, According to Reuters.

In August of last year, two aircraft of the Chinese Air Force flew near and then fired flares on the road to a Philippines Air Force plane in the Routine patrol on the Scarborough Shoal in actions that were strongly condemned and protested by the Filipino government, military officials said. All those aboard the Philippines Air Force NC-212I Turbo-Prop Avine were unharmed, said the Philippine army.

The Southern Theater Command of the Chinese People Liberation Army then said that an “illegally” Air Force aircraft “entered the airspace on SAE’s training activities and interrupted by the Chinese forces. He warned the Philippines to “stop their infraction, provocation, distortion and promotion.”

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The Filipino military chief, General Romeo Brawnner, said at that time that the incident “raised a threat to the Air Force aircraft of the Philippines and its crew, interfered with the legal flight operations in the airspace within the sovereignty and sovereignty within the sovereignty and The Philippine jurisdiction and contravent the international law and the regulations that govern security.

China and the Philippines have had an increasingly alarming confrontation in the Shoal, which is called Masinloc’s bass for the Philippines and Huangyan Island for China.

“We are always prepared for any contingency, it is part of the training,” Castillo said Tuesday when asked if the Allied forces had prepared to board any challenge of Chinese airplanes.

“It happened before and, as I have said, whatever the coercive and aggressive actions of any foreign part, the Philippines Air Force will not dissuade their mandate,” Castillo said.

The United States Army has informed to meet such dangerous maneuvers due to the planes of the Chinese Air Force in the past on the dispute waters, where it has deployed combat airplanes and ships from the Navy to promote freedom of navigation and overflow.

China has erred American military deployments In the region in dispute, saying that these have in danger regional security.

In addition to China and the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan have overlapping territorial claims in the Crowd and the Philippines and the Navy. Forces in the Scarborough Shoal and another fiercely disputed atoll, the second Thomas Shoal.

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Washington has repeatedly warned that he is obliged to defend the Philippines, his ally of the oldest treaty in Asia, if the forces, the ships and the Filipino airplanes are under an armed attack, even in the South China Sea.

Associated Press contributed to this report.