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PLA Southern Theater Command conducts joint naval-air training exercise at Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas
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The PLA Southern Theater Command ran a joint naval-air exercise at Huangyan Dao (Scarborough Shoal) and surrounding waters on August 1, timed to Army Day. The official framing attributes the exercise to unspecified acts by 'certain countries' that have 'undermined regional peace and stability' — language that points to the Philippines and its U.S.-backed resupply and patrol operations without naming them. The article provides no unit designations, platform types, or force scale, leaving the exercise's actual military scope unknown.
The PLA Southern Theater Command explicitly named Huangyan Dao (Scarborough Shoal) as the location of a joint naval-air exercise, a direct and unusually specific territorial signal likely timed to August 1 Army Day and directed at the Philippines amid ongoing gray-zone tensions at that feature.
Translation
On August 1, the PLA Southern Theater Command conducted a joint naval-air training exercise in the territorial sea and airspace of China's Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas. This is a necessary action taken in light of the current situation in the South China Sea and in response to the acts of certain countries within the region that have undermined regional peace and stability. The training exercise aims to test and enhance the forces' real combat capabilities to safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests. (Video Editor: Cheng Sihao)
Original text
On August 1, the PLA Southern Theater Command conducted a joint naval-air training exercise in the territorial sea and airspace of China's Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas. This is a necessary action taken in light of the current situation in the South China Sea and in response to the acts of certain countries within the region that have undermined regional peace and stability. The training exercise aims to test and enhance the forces' real combat capabilities to safeguard China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests. (Video Editor: Cheng Sihao)