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| PLAN Type 054A Frigate (File Photo) |
A flotilla of Chinese naval ships returned home on Friday after completing this year’s first open sea training exercises monitored closely by several foreign warships and planes amid Beijing’s maritime disputes with neighbours like Japan and the Philippines.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ships completed the 18-day open-sea training exercise in the West Pacific Ocean and returned to the northern port city of Qingdao, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The PLA fleet was followed by foreign aircraft and warships for much of the time, the report said without identify the foreign countries whose vessels monitored the exercises.
During the training exercise, the flotilla patrolled the disputed South China Sea and conducted a joint anti-submarine exercise, it said.
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