The US Defense Minister - Philippines discussed, unified strengthening cooperation, when more than 200 Chinese vessels gathered in the South China Sea.

US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin on April 10, telephone with Philippines Delfin Lorenzana on the East Sea situation, as well as the presence of a series of Chinese ships recently at the reef near the Eastern Island of Vietnam

The phone was done when Mr. Austin was on the road flying from Washington to Israel to start an international trip.

Chinese ships anchored in the first three-year beach in the winter islands of Vietnam.

Austin proposed with Lorenzana Some measures to strengthen defense cooperation, including "raising awareness of the situation in the east sea threats", Kirby said, but did not detail.

The Pentagon spokesman also confirmed the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier combat team and the USS Makin Island landfill was being implemented in the South China Sea.

The modern American warships continuously entered the East Sea in the context of Washington strengthening criticism of "threatening smaller countries in the region" of Beijing, including hundreds of ships to the yard

Location of the Eastern Existence (Red Circle) and Ba Head Beach in the Truong Sa archipelago.

About 200 Chinese fishing vessels anchored at the first three-year beach in the winter island, belonging to the Spratly Islands of Vietnam, from March 7, biting long-term goods without catching, despite the convenient weather.

In the press conference on April 8, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Thi Thu Hang said that Vietnam was watching closely in the East Sea, protecting and enforcing sovereignty, sovereignty rights in the waters, edema

During the press conference two weeks earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman affirmed that the operation of Chinese vessels within the territorial waters of the existent existentially violated Vietnam's sovereignty, violating international law.