00:00 It is also being prepared to create a stir between Taiwan and China
00:05 when they choose a location in the north as the location of Balikatan 2024.
00:10 That is what an official of the AFP admitted and that is what June Veneration is talking about.
00:15 In the far north of the Philippines, near Taiwan,
00:22 one of the chosen training areas of Balikatan Exercises 2024.
00:27 Here, the tension is high because of the growing stir of Taiwan and China.
00:32 An official of the AFP admitted that the joint military training of the Philippines and America
00:38 is being prepared to create a stir in that area.
00:56 In the ocean of the Ilocos Norte,
00:59 a sinking exercise will be held where a decommissioned ship will be sunk and will be the target.
01:05 In Balikatan 2024, SM-6, the missile system of the US military,
01:12 will be deployed first. It has a range of 300 nautical miles.
01:16 It is now in the Ilocos Norte.
01:18 It will not fire. So it is, again, I said it's a logistics exercise.
01:24 We will be firing other weapon systems but not that one.
01:27 The military exercise will also be held in the West Philippine Sea.
01:30 With or without China, let's say for example in a parallel universe,
01:34 China did not exist, we would still be doing these exercises.
01:38 Balikatan 2024 will be held on Monday, April 22.
01:42 11,000 US troopers and more than 5,000 AFP soldiers will be involved in the first exercise.
01:49 Colonel Franzel Margareth Padilla, spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said
01:55 that it is a good opportunity to join the maritime exercises of France and Australia.
02:01 With these exercises, how can we interoperate and integrate our systems with other like-minded nations
02:08 in the event of any eventualities, not just for the defense side of things,
02:13 but also in terms of HADR, so humanitarian assistance as the case may be.
02:20 For GMA Integrated News, June Veneration, 24 Hours.
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