[1]Philippine President Benigno Aquino said on Monday he may ask the United States to deploy spy planes in the South China Sea to help monitor the disputed waters, a move that may reignite tension with its giant neighbour China
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"We might be requesting overflights on that," Aquino told, referring to U.S. P3C Orion spy planes. "We don't have aircraft with those capabilities."
Last month, Aquino pulled out a lightly armed coast guard ship and a fisheries boat due to bad weather around a group of rock formations about 140 miles west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, ending a two-month standoff between the two sides.
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