Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro says China is putting ever-greater pressure on the Philippines to relinquish its sovereign rights in the South China Sea.
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00:00Defense Secretary Gibo Chidoro says China is putting ever greater pressure on the Philippines
00:07to relinquish its sovereign rights in the South China Sea.
00:10Chidoro says this after his meeting with Australian Defense Chief Richard Marles in Canberra on
00:14Tuesday, November 12.
00:16He says there is, quote, an increasing demand by Beijing from Manila to concede its sovereign
00:20rights in the area.
00:22Chidoro adds that the Philippines is a victim of Chinese aggression.
00:25Marles says Australia wants to work more closely with the Philippine defense industry and it
00:30will send an engineering assessment team in 2025.
00:33The Philippines and Australia are strengthening defense cooperation.
00:36They signed strategic partnership in September 2023 and afterwards launched joint air and
00:41sea patrols in the South China Sea.
00:44The Philippines joined war games in Australia for the first time this year.