The Philippines plans to station fighter jets and frigates on a former US naval base facing the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), where it is engaged in a maritime row with China, a defense official said Monday.
They will be located in Subic Bay, some 200 kilometers from a shoal off the northern Philippines controlled by Chinese forces, said Arsenio Andolong, the defense department’s public affairs chief.
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