DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana asked foreign ships to be cautious when passing through Philippine waters, following the near collision between US and Russian ships.

Lorenzana admitted in an interview on Monday that such a “miscalculation” may get the US “engaged in a shooting war," which may “automatically involve us because we are with [the] US in the alliance [through the] MDT,” referring to the Mutual Defense Treaty forged between the US and the Philippines in 1951.

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