Source: China – South China Morning PostWith assault weapons ready, US and Filipino marines sprang from amphibious vehicles and transport helicopters to defend an island from potential aggressors in a war exercise and show of American firepower staged on Thursday in the northern Philippines. The exercise – held in far-flung Claveria town across the sea from China and Taiwan – fits into a strategy unveiled in February by the Biden administration to considerably broaden US engagement in the Indo-Pacific region by strengthening a web of…Read More