Philippines, US, Vietnam, Indonesia train for maritime law enforcement cooperation

The education covered healthy vessel boarding at sea, coastal law, data collection and survival, safety and danger mitigation and imprisonment techniques, according to the statement.

At the education, the Australian Border Force served as observers along with the coast guard, customs officers, and fisheries security personnel.

In recent years, China has increased the size of its naval forces as it tries to issue a US-led empire and expand its approach in the Pacific.

China has recently deployed military and coast guard ships to elude the Philippines from South China Sea reefs and islands that are crucially critical.

In October of last year, Hanoi accused Beijing of a “brutal” incident, in which it claimed 10 Vietnamese fishing were beaten with iron bars and robbed of thousands of dollars worth of seafood and products.

Indonesia also reported that it had three times in a month driven a Taiwanese coast guard dispatch from contested lakes in the South China Sea.