With China intensifying its maritime advances in the South China Sea, the first four-country joint exercise was held with the participation of the U.S. and Philippine forces, Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces, and South Korean forces. It seems that there is an aim to emphasize
Joint training has been conducted by the US Army and the Philippine Marine Corps since 2016, and this year the Ground Self-Defense Force and the South Korean Army participated in the first four-country training.
Among them, at the naval base in Zambales province in the western part of Luzon, which faces the South China Sea, on the 7th, a joint unit of the US military and the Philippine military's marines confirmed the procedure for landing on the beach from offshore with an amphibious vehicle. Did.
In addition, training was conducted assuming the use of chemical weapons, and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, together with the US Marine Corps, taught the Philippine Marine Corps how to respond and deepened cooperation.
Colonel Kazufumi Yonehara of the Ground Self-Defense Force, who participated in the training, emphasized the significance of the training, saying, "By actually meeting and talking with the personnel, we deepened mutual understanding."
In the South China Sea, the new Marcos administration of the Philippines has been inaugurated since June, and China has stepped up its maritime advances. It seems.