Manila – The Philippines is building up its military capability to protect its territories in the disputed South China Sea, President Benigno Aquino III said Monday. Aquino said his administration plans to purchase more patrol craft, helicopters and weapons to upgrade the country’s ill-equipped armed forces. ‘We do not wish to increase tensions with anyone, but we must let the world know that we are ready to protect what is ours,’ he said in his state of the nation address before Congress. ‘There was a time when we couldn’t appropriately respond to threats in our own backyard,’ he added. ‘Now our message is clear: What is ours is ours.’ Aquino said the Philippines’ very first Hamilton-class…
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