The US is to deploy P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft to Singapore for the first time in the latest response to China and its growing military presence in the South China Sea.
The US and Singapore announced on Monday that the first deployment of the spy aircraft would take place this month with further missions likely in the coming months.
The announcement, which was made after Ng En Hen, Singapore’s defence minister, visited the Pentagon on Monday, is the latest move in a military partnership between the two countries that has quietly expanded in recent years amid China’s military expansion.
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