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Balikatan Exercise Amid Simmering Geopolitical Tension
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Balikatan Exercise Amid Simmering Geopolitical Tension

This year’s Balikatan Exercise is considered to be the largest in the last three decades, conducted from 11th April to 28th April and involved more than 17,600 military personnel from the Philippines and the United States armed forces.Ever since Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in June 2022, Manila has been looking forward towards building a vigorous relationship with Washington.Beijing has expressed concerns over the new US military bases in the Philippines which will provide more flexibility to US presence if any conflict breaks out between US and China. The area of defence cooperation fulfils the mutual interests of both the Philippines and the US by enabling the former to build internal capability for defending its territorial integrity The region of...