The 2 countries have been quietly deepening security ties
The Philippines has conducted combined coast guard patrols with Taiwan in the Bashi Channel. Taiwan has also sent observers to a US-Philippines-Japan military exercise in the Batanes Islands, less than 200 kilometers south of Taiwan.
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