China's largest naval training ship sailed for the Philippines on Friday, its last stop of a regional 'friendly' tour, amid growing unease over Chinese maritime activities in the South China Sea.
BEIJING, June 9 - China's largest naval training ship sailed for the Philippines on Friday, its last stop of a regional "friendly" tour, amid growing unease over Chinese maritime activities in the South China Sea.
At the end of its trip, Qijiguang and its crew of 476 navy students and officers would have passed through the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand and West Pacific. Its impending arrival in the Philippines comes amid tensions with its neighbours over the South China Sea, which China mostly claims but parts of which are also claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.involving the Philippines, Japan and the United States that ended on Wednesday.
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