2023-06-05 13:23:29
MADRID, 5 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Indonesia has begun this Monday a maritime military exercise in which regarding 49 countries participate, many of them rivals, such as the United States, Russia and China or North Korea and its neighbor to the South, amid tensions in the region. of the Indo-Pacific.
The Indonesian Ministry of Defense has indicated in a statement that the exercise, called Komodo, will take place between the islands of Borneo and Celebes until Thursday with the aim of reinforcing “bilateral cooperation” in the face of natural disasters, humanitarian assistance or threats. maritime.
In the maneuvers, inaugurated by the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, a destroyer of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy and a frigate with the capacity to carry missiles will participate, the newspaper ‘South China Morning Post’ reported.
This comes following the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore, in which Washington reaffirmed its commitment to “freedom, security and prosperity” in the Indo-Pacific region in the face of tensions with Beijing.
The efforts to normalize relations between the United States and China, always tense due to the commercial frictions and international alliances that separate both countries, ended up first derailing in August of last year, with the visit to Taiwan of the then president of the lower house of the US Congress, Nancy Pelosi.
Subsequently, in February of this year, tensions rose once more between the two nations with the shooting down by the US Army of an alleged Chinese spy balloon — a meteorological probe, according to Beijing.
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