American forces and their allies in Asia are ready for battle after years of joint combat exercises, a US general, adding that Russia’s setbacks in Ukraine should serve as a warning to potential Asian aggressors like China and North Korea. Know more:
American forces and their allies in Asia are ready for battle after years of joint combat exercises, a United States general said Wednesday, adding that Russia’s setbacks in Ukraine should serve as a warning to potential Asian aggressors like China and North Korea.
Ryan, Commanding General of the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division based in Hawaii, is in Manila partly for talks with Philippine counterparts ahead of two annual large-scale combat exercises that would include live-fire exercises and ground, sea and air assault maneuvers involving thousands of US and Filipino troops in March and April.
More recent venues of large-scale exercises by American and Filipino forces included coastal Philippine provinces close to the disputed South China Sea, where China has taken increasingly assertive actions to cement its territorial claims, and in the northern Luzon region, which lies across a narrow sea border from Taiwan.
“We feel duty-bound to ensure that the Philippines can maintain and will maintain their sovereignty,” Ryan said. “So aggression from the People’s Republic of China that makes our treaty ally uncomfortable makes us uncomfortable.”
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