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U.S. and The Philippines Conduct Joint Patrol with Allies as China Test-Fired IBM into the Pacific

The Philippines, joined four other countries on Saturday, in the largest joint maritime patrol to date, as China conducted its own naval and air exercises near Scarborough Shoal on the same day. The Armed Forces of the Philippines, and the United States Navy together with The Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Royal New Zealand Navy conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity within the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone in the West Philippine Sea on September 28, 2024. The Maritime Cooperative Activity demonstrate the strength of relationships between partners and allies, and enhance cooperation, interoperability, and combined capabilities in the maritime domain, contributing to peace, stability, and upholding the freedom of navigation and overflight in the Indo-Pacific region. This iteration included training on routine multilateral surface operations, deck landings, hoisting, and search and rescue. This underscores the 5 nations shared commitments to upholding the right to freedom of navigation and overflight, other lawful uses of the sea and international airspace, as well as respect for maritime rights under international law, as reflected in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. On September 24, 2024 U.S. Navy Sailors conduct flight operations on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt, flagship of Carrier Strike Group 9, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the United States Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region. While on Wednesday, September 25, The Chinese military test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific on marking its first known launch of an ICBM in decades, after Biden touts US relationship with Japan, South Korea, stirring security concerns in the region already tense over Beijing’s territorial claims and rivalry with the U.S. The ICBM carried a dummy warhead and fell into a designated area of the sea, the Defense Ministry said in a statement posted to social media. The launch by the People’s Liberation Army’s Rocket Force was part of routine annual training, complied with international law and was not directed against any country or target, according to the statement. It is unclear how often China conducts tests over such a distance. In 1980, China launched an ICBM into the South Pacific. A map published in Chinese newspapers at the time showed the target area as roughly a circle in the center of a ring formed by the Solomon Islands, Nauru, the Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu, western Samoa, Fiji and the New Hebrides. Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @aseananalytics