We're moving from Europe where Jeff reports for CBS news.

He is CEO of diamond six leadership and strategy of visiting

professor Dickens at college.

We move from reporting in Europe to reporting in Asia.

And this is positive, very positive because of the geography,

which hasn't changed since the 1940s and the war between the US Navy

and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

China issues warning as US Philippines stage largest ever drills to

unpack this. I asked the Colonel to help me understand the geography

here. The Philippines are abodding the South China Sea.

The Philippines are series of islands.

Large one, Luzon in the north.

That was where the action was when the Japanese invaded in 1941,

42. There is a smaller island in between down the archipelago called

Palawan Island. And that is part of the relationship now is

reestablished between the US and the Philippines.

Palawan Island is directly on the South China Sea.

I mentioned that not because it's critical right now, but because

there are exercises between the US and the Philippines that have

very much attracted the condemnation of the Chinese foreign ministry.

The usual rhetoric of denial and denunciation.

However, Jeff, your measure of the Philippines entering into these exercises.

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