China’s PLA Navy has launched its largest ever live fire drill in the South China Sea just days before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is set to issue a ruling over the Philippines’ case brought against Beijing’s South China Sea claims.
On Sunday, the country’s CCTV broadcast images of jet fighters, and navy ships firing missiles, and helicopters taking off and submarines surfacing. The PLA Daily said that “the drill focuses on air control operations, sea battles and anti-submarine warfare.”
