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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

P-Noy wants US spy plane help in China dispute

P-3C OrionPresident Aquino may soon ask the United States to deploy spy planes in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) to help monitor the disputed waters, a move that could reignite tensions with its giant neighbor China.

“We might be requesting overflights on that,” Aquino said, referring to US P3C Orion spy planes. “We don’t have aircraft with those capabilities.”

The President ordered the pullout last month of a lightly armed Coast Guard ship and a fisheries boat due to bad weather around a group of rock formations about 140 miles (225 km) west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, ending a two-month standoff between the two sides.

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