PLA holds combat readiness patrols around hotly disputed South China Sea shoal

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PLA holds combat readiness patrols around hotly disputed South China Sea shoal

Chinese military stages exercises around Scarborough Shoal, which has been a source of persistent tensions with the Philippines.

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China’s naval and air forces have conducted a new patrol in the waters and airspace around the Scarborough Shoal, an area of the South China Sea that is in dispute with the Philippines. The operation, announced on Thursday by the People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theater Command, is the latest in a series of exercises aimed at strengthening Beijing’s control over the area. According to the Chinese command, naval and air operations around the S…