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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Chinese paper hits AFP move to Subic


Subic Bay
China believes the Philippine plan to relocate major air force and navy bases to the former US naval base in Subic Bay in the West Philippine Sea is aimed at increasing pressure on it and bringing in more outside forces to the region.

In a report in the state-owned newspaper China Daily, Li Guoqiang, deputy director of the Center for Chinese Borderland History and Geography at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the Philippines is building up and concentrating military forces near the South China Sea to target China.

“If all related parties resort to military means as Manila has for a resolution, the region will surely become a powder keg,” Li said.

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