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PH, US Balikatan exercises open with fewer troops
The annual military exercises between the United States and the Philippines, called “Balikatan [shoulder-to-shoulder],” opened in Quezon City on Monday, but on a smaller scale, amid the government’s declared pivot to China and Russia.
- Philip C. Tubeza
- Inquirer
- WITH A REPORT FROM AFP
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