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| USS John C. Stennis (Image: Wiki Commons) |
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Philippine Defense Sec. Voltaire Gazmin and Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Hernando Iriberri visited a US carrier in the West Philippine Sea, likely to inflame tension with China.
The nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis was sailing within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippine claims in the West Philippine Sea.
Carter dismissed China’s characterization of a more robust U.S. military presence in the region as being the cause of heightened tensions.
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