Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro has warned that Beijing could view recent cuts to the joint US-South Korea military drills as an opportunity to reassert itself in the Asia Pacific.

Teodoro said this on the sidelines of the Seoul Defense Dialogue, an annual multilateral security forum, saying that“China is very quick to exploit gaps”,

He added that Washington had given phillipines “definite assurances” that the US commitments to the Philippines remained unchanged.

He also accused China of exploiting democratic systems to spread “distortive narratives”.

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