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U.S., France, Japan and Australia hold first combined naval drill in Asia

Published 05/16/2019, 06:30 PM
U.S., France, Japan and Australia hold first combined naval drill in Asia

TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Warships from France, Japan,
Australia and the United States held their first ever combined
naval exercise on Thursday, in a new show of force in Asian
waters by the United States and its allies who are wary of
China's growing power.
The French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle and its
escorts, were joined the Bay of Bengal by five other naval
vessel, including a Japanese helicopter carrier, a U.S. guided
missile destroyer and an Australian submarine.
They practiced formation sailing, live fire drills, and
search and rescue, according to a news release from the U.S.
Seventh Fleet.
As China's military power grows in the region, the United
States and Japan are looking to forge stronger defence ties with
other countries in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, including
France and the Britain, that could help counterbalance China's
expanding influence.
The Japanese carrier the Izumo and the U.S. destroyer, the
USS William P. Lawrence, last week joined vessels from India and
the Philippines for exercises in the South China Sea, most of
which China claims.
Those manoeuvres in waters through which around a third of
the world's maritime trade flows, came after two other U.S.
warships sailed near islands in the region claimed by China,
prompting a protest from Beijing.
China claims almost all of the strategic South China Sea
with Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and
Vietnam pushing competing claims to parts of it.
The United States, Japan, France and Australia do not have
any territorial claims there.

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