US, Canada, Japan, and Philippines conduct joint exercises in South China Sea

Manila: The United States, Canada, Japan, and the Philippines conducted a two-day joint maritime exercise in Manila's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, the US Pacific Fleet said on its website on Monday.

The 'maritime cooperative activity' involved a series of maritime manoeuvres to test and validate the interoperability of our armed forces' doctrines, tactics, techniques, and procedures, the US Pacific Fleet said.