World War 3 fears: US military presence ‘needed’ in Aisa as China tensions soar

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The two world superpowers are disputing over an array of issues, which include trade, the disputed South China Sea and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Philippines’ foreign minister Teodoro Locsin said: “We have a balance of power situation. “We need the US presence in Asia.” Mr Locsin said it would be in the Philippines’ interest for the US to have a military presence in the region and claimed his country has never stopped cooperating with Washington. The US sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait this month, just days after a US carrier group carried out an exercise in the South...