High alert: 40.000 of US Troops Arrive in Manila to Strike All Threats of Chinese boats in the SCS

 

High alert: 40.000 of US Troops Arrive in Manila to Strike All Threats of Chinese boats in the SCS. he Philippines will continue its visiting forces agreement with the U.S. for the near future, suspending an earlier decision to scrap the major military deal amid China's renewed muscle-flexing in the South China Sea. "The abrogation of the visiting forces agreement has been suspended" upon President Rodrigo Duterte's instruction, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said Tuesday on Twitter.

High alert: 40.000 of US Troops Arrive in Manila to Strike All Threats of Chinese boats in the SCS

Great! The return of US Military Forces will further strengthen Philippine Defense against China

The return of US Military Forces will further strengthen Philippine Defense against China. The Philippines will continue its visiting forces agreement with the U.S. for the near future, suspending an earlier decision to scrap the major military deal amid China's renewed muscle-flexing in the South China Sea. "The abrogation of the visiting forces agreement has been suspended" upon President Rodrigo Duterte's instruction, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said Tuesday on Twitter. In its letter to the U.S. Embassy in Manila, which Locsin posted, the Philippine Foreign Affairs Department said the move was "in light of political and other developments in the region." Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Locsin said Duterte's decision also came amid "heightened superpower tensions," without directly referring to the U.S.-China rivalry. "I will answer only one question, which I will ask myself. Why? Why did he change his mind?," Locsin said. "[I]n the vast and swiftly changing circumstances of the world, in the time of pandemic and heightened superpower tensions, a world leader must be quick in mind and fast on his feet for the safety of our nation and the peace of the world." Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Manuel Romualdez acknowledged that recent developments in the South China Sea were a factor in Duterte's decision. "And the political reasons, obviously, [are] that there are quite a number of things that are happening right now in the South China Sea. Very clearly, we see that," Romualdez said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel.

US deploy whole fleet, bring 10,000 missiles for War with China in SCS The U.S. Navy has a firepower problem. The steady expansion of the Chinese navy in recent decades has chipped away at the American’s fleet’s advantage in one key measure of naval capability—missile-launching cells. But a new weapon could help restore the U.S. advantage. The maturation of the long-range, multi-role Standard Missile 6—or SM-6—doesn’t add cells to the fleet. But it does make the existing cells more useful. Today the Navy’s 300 front-line vessels pack around 10,000 missile cells. Compare that to the Chinese navy, which has more ships but deploys many fewer missiles—around 3,300, total. Not coincidentally, the Chinese fleet is only beginning to equip its major surface combatants with missile cells.